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NEW-ENGLAND

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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY, BY THE

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FOR THE YEAR 1890,

VOLUME XLIV.

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER.

JANUARY, 1890.

INCREASE NILES TARBOX, D.D., S.T.D.
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i By the Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D., of Mew Bedford, Mass.

DR. TARBOX was of Puritan descent, and, more fortunate tlinn
many, was able to identify on both sides its successive links
from almost the earliest days of Massachusetts. In his father's line
that descent was through Thomas, Jonathan, Thomas, Godfrey,
Godfrey, and Samuel, to John Tarbox, who was in Lynn in 1639.*
On the mother's side it was by Lucy, daughter of John, through
Increase, Increase, David, and John, to John Porter, who, in 1638,
was one of the earliest settlers from Massachusetts of Windsor,
Conn. His father was born in Hebron, Conn., in 1776, and was a
baby in the cradle — the first-born of his family — when his father
Jonathan joined the army of the revolution.

Dr. Tarbox was born in East Windsor, Conn., on Saturday, Feb.
11, 1815. He was so unfortunate as to lose his mother twenty-two
days after he was one year old, and his father when but a month and
ten days more than nine years old ; by consequence being thrown
upon his own resources at a tender age. In his verses, published
many years after, he went back to these days in the sweet little
I poem called "My Mother's Grave," in which he tenderly referred to

«] the mothering care which the desolated flock had from their oldest

sister :

I The elder born, a sister sweet,

i Would often lead our younger feet

Around this simple grave to meet —
i I mind it well ;

And here our mother's words repeat,
Her counsels tell.

With touches of maternal art
She tried to act the mother's part,
And fold us to her swelling heart

With tender tone —
To wipe our tear-drops as they start,

And leave her own.

* Dr. Tarbox never felt sure that he had found the exact place where his genealogy
united itself to that of some English family of the name.
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In March, 1825, a little less than a year after his father's death,
the lad went to reside with an uncle in Vernon, Conn. But the
death of that uncle left him, at the age of fourteen, to return to East
Windsor, to live with Mr. John Bissell, and to assist him in hid farm-
work. This proved a good home, and young Tarbox remained

there faithfully discharging his multifarious — if simple and humble

duties, and quietly laying in a stock of sound physical health, and of
solid common sense views of men and things, which stood him in
good stead thereafter, until the autumn of 1833, when — in his nine-
teenth year — Mr. Bissell released him that he might teach a district
school in North Coventry, Conn., where he imparted what he him-
self had learned in the common schools, so far his sole reliance,
augmented from his private reading and his own stores of reflection.
The next spring he went to the Academy at East Hartford, Conn.,
to fit for college, whence, in the summer of the following year, he
entered Yale. When it is remembered how little time he had been
able to devote especially to his preparatory studies, it is obvious that
he must have had an alert and apprehensive mind, and must have
used prodigious application to study.

It was in connection with what was known as the " Great Revival"
of 1831-32, that his attention was especially turned toward a
religious life, and the work of preaching the Gospel ; and the
change which was wrought before his eyes in the character of the
farmer with whom he was living, produced a great effect upon his
mind, and decided him to endeavor, if possible, to enter the Christian
ministry.

The class which he entered at Yale, which graduated 94 members,
was an exceptionally large and able one for those days ; having then
been exceeded in numbers only by those of 182G and 1837. Among
those gathered in it who became variously well-known, were Charles
Astor Bristed, who went over to take his degree in Trinity College,
Cambridge, and whose "Five Years in an English University," pub-
lished in 1852, did so much to familiarize American scholars with a
subject before to them obscure ; Hon. Henry L. Dawes, still one
of our honored Massachusetts Senators in the Congress of the
United States ; Charles Hammond, LL.D., the distinguished educa-
tor at Monson ; Hon. Henry 11. Jackson, judge ot the Supreme Court
of Georgia, and United States minister to Austria ; Dr. I. P. Lang-
worthy, who, in various ways, earned so large respect in these
regions ; Dr. Charles J. Stillo, professor in the University of
Pennsylvania, and author of " How a Free People conduct a long
War," and other valuable contributions to American literature ; Dr.
Francis Wharton, perhaps equally eminent as a jurist and an Epis-
copal divine ; and Josiah Dwight Whitney, one of the most worthily
renowned of American geologists. Among men like these our friend
ranked well, and was held in honor. Graduating in 1830, he went
at once back to East Hartford, to teach in the Academy where he

1890.] Increase N lies Tarbox. 11

had prepared himself for college, and remained there until, in 1812,
he was elected tutor in his Alma Mater, and removed thither to
assume the duties of that position. Under the system which then
prevailed in the college, cuch an appointment was an indication not
only of the superior scholarship of the man receiving it, but also of
the confidence of the faculty in his general good sense, and capacity
for affairs. Mr. Tarbox held this place, with great acceptance, for
two years, at the same time, with characteristic diligence and success,
pursuing the sacred studies of the profession which he had chosen in
the Divinity School of the Institution, whence he graduated with
honor at the anniversary of 1844.

In the following autumn he became pastor of what is now the
Plymouth Congregational Church in Framingham, Mass. — which
used to be known as the "Hollis Evangelical Church" — where lie
was ordained on Wednesday, 20 November, 1844 ; the sermon being
! preached by Rev. S. W. S. Dutton, of New Haven, Conn. ; the

Ordaining Prayer made by Rev. Josiah Ballard, of Sudbury ; the
charge to the Pastor given by Rev Joseph Haven, Jr., of Ashland ;
and the Right Hand of Fellowship by Rev. S. G. Buckingham, of
Millbury. \

In his various functions in Framingham the young minister — he
was now nine-and-twenty — made himself soon acceptable not only
to his own congregation, but to the entire community. He served,
of course, for years on the School Committee, and was a Trustee of
the Academy, and of the Public Library. In 1848 he delivered
the address at the Consecration of the Edgell Grove Cemetery, in
whose "quiet resting-places," with three members of his family,
what was mortal of him now sleeps. His fellow townsmen gave
significant testimony to their sense of the wisdom which he had in
public questions, when, in 1836', they made him chairman of the

t committee for the erection of the buildings for their High School in

.1 the Centre Village, and at Saxonville.

The very name which up to this time his church had borne, indi-
cated that Framingham was one of those rural communities which
had passed through theological excitement. In fact it was only
fourteen years before his coming that a separation had taken place

| between those members of the church who substantially adhered to

the ancient faith, and a minority who went with the parish to con-
stitute a Unitarian body. Dr. Nathaniel W". Taylor was then the
ruling spirit in the New Haven Seminary, and if there were any one

j subject on which he more thoroughly instructed his students than on

, all others, it was the various doctrine which distinguished New Eng-

land Orthodoxy from Socinianism. Mr. Tarbox fully accepted Dr.

1 Taylor's system, and his clear way of thinking made it impossible

for him not to take sides theologically on such a question. But his
regnant common sense, with the geniality of his temper, made it

I ' quite impossible for him to be an extremist, or to become a nuisance

I 12 Increase N~iles Tarbox. [Jan.

in his way of holding what to him were sacredest and vital truths.
By consequence a pleasant acquaintance grew up between him and
the Rev. William Barry, then pastor of the Unitarian Society in
Framingham — an agreeable and scholarly person, with whom he
had many tastes in common, and who afterwards wrote the " History
of Framingham." It would ta wrong not to mention here, in pass-
ing, a little incident which illustrates the good-feeling which came
to reign in the town, when — as a token of gratitude for many kind-
nesses done for the Unitarian people when destitute of a pastor, Mr.

| Tarbox was asked to accept a silver pitcher bearing the inscription —

"Presented by the Ladies of the First Parish, Framingham, to Rev.
Increase N. Tarbox, January, 1848."

In the year after his settlement — the exact date being 4 June,
1845 — Mr. Tarbox wa3 united in marriage to Miss Delia A.,
daughter of Asa Waters, Esq., and Susan (Holman) his wife, of
Millbury, Mass. Miss Waters was a sister of the wife of Rev. Dr.
Dutton of the North Church in New Haven, and not a few who
were residents of New Haven in those days must remember what a
pleasant light beamed from the fine eyes of the younger sister when
her elder sister's dwelling received her visits — during one of which
sprang up the attachment which ended in a happy and hallowed
union which was terminated by her death only some five years before
that of her husband.

In the spring of 1849, the exigences of the Congregational Churches
— then a good deal stirred up between the "Old School," who were
represented by Dr. Woods of Andover and Dr. Tyler of East
Windsor, and the "New School," who more agreed on some points
with Dr. Taylor of New Haven, Prof. Park of Andover, Dr. Ide of
Medway, and many disciples of Dr. Emmons scattered up and down
New England — seemed to require the establishment of a new weekly
religious journal, for the satisfaction of numbers whose wants were
not met by the — even then venerable — Boston Recorder, Accord-
ingly the first number of The Congregational ist — which in the
same year absorbed the Boston Reporter ; in lbOl the Christian
Times, and in 18b*7 the Boston Recorder itself — was issued 25
May, 1849. Its three editors were Dr. Edward Beechef, then pas-
tor of the Salem Church, Boston; Rev. Joseph Haven, Jr., then
pastor of the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline, and sub-
sequently professor at Amherst College and in the Congregational
Theological Seminary at Chicago ; and Mr. Tarbox, then in his
fifth year at Framingham. The new paper was designed to stand
in doctrine upon the Bible essentially as interpreted by the New
England Theology, under the shaping of the great Jonathan

1 f Edwards ; and in morals was pledged " earnestly to oppose the

extension of slavery in the slightest degree beyond its present limits."
Mr. Tarbox brought to it the judgment of a wide-awake yet prudent
thinker, with the pen of an unusually ready writer, and his services

;

1890,] Increase Niles Tarbox. 13

for the more than two years during which he hold the place, were
most highly regarded, not merely in the way of literary criticism,
but of general articles ably treating such developments of doctrine,
and morals, and such phases of public events, as thrust themselves
into discussion.

This, indeed, was not altogether new business to Mr. Tarbox.
As early, at least, as during his college course, he had become
a contributor to the press. In the Yale Literary Magazine for
1838-9, in the good company of Charles Astor Bristed, Donald G.
Mitchell (Ik. Marvel), C. J. Stille, the late Daniel P. Noyes, Dr.
Daniel March, Dr. J. P. Gulliver, Prof. James M. Hoppin, Prof.
Henry Booth and others, he appears as a contributor. And when
during his tutorship the JVcw Englander was started, he furnished
for its initial number an original poem, and a careful review of the
Tecumseh of George Hooker Colton, his friend, and the salutatorian
of the class that came after his. These had been followed, in the
same review, in 1846, by an article on "Fourierism," and in 1849,
by one on "George Hooker Colton" — too early deceased. So that,
although not specially thrust into prominence by his position as a
pastor, Mr. Tarbox had already drawn toward himself the favoring
opinion of a considerable portion of his own denomination, by whom
he was regarded as one of the " coming men " ; while the ready good
sense with which he discharged every duty led many to feel that he
possessed unusual qualifications for usefulness in some position
other and wider than that of a pastor, where sound judgment, perfect
integrity, and ready aptness for various service, were peculiarly
demanded.

The "American Education Society" — now "The American and
College Education Society" — happened just then to be look-
ing about for some such man, to take hold of and prosecute its
admirable work of aiding indigent young men into the Christian
ministry — a work which had a little drifted out of the current of
public regard into still water, and which needed re-energization.
The Rev. Samuel Hopkins Riddel had recently left the position of
its Secretary and Chief Actuary, and Rev. Dr. William Augustus
Stearns, then pastor of the First Evangelical Congregational Church
in Cambridgeport — a position which three years later lie left to be-
come President of Amherst College — had just declined a unanimous
election to take Mr. Riddel's place. Its directors then were led to
the choice of Mr. Tarbox, whom the Society elected ; and, after
much consideration, although his people with one voice and great
urgency begged him to stay with them, it seemed to him that he
ought to remove to the new field. He was accordingly dismissed
on Wednesday, 2 July, 1851, by a Council of the vicinage, which,
in their Result, said :

The case presented to the Council is not the less trying to personal
feelings because it is one apparently of very plain duty. . . . The
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14 Increase Titles Tarhox. [Jan.

committee from the Church and Society expressed the deep and general
regret, and painful reluctance with which they acceded to the request of
their pastor, wishing the Council to understand that their unanimity was
only in concession to his wishes, and against their own strong, decided
and unanimous preferences.

The same issue of The Congregaiionalist (11 July, 1851) which
published this Result of Council, contained also Mr. Tarbox's resig-
nation of his editorial responsibility — leaving, as his associates
declared, a very serious vacancy of "an ever cheerful face, steady
and wise counsels, and a racy and ready pen," which, a few months
later (24 Oct. 1851) the writer of this sketch was rash enough to
try to fill.

From this hour steadily on, during the complete and rounded
average life-time of an entire generation of our race, Mr. Tarbox
gave himself with fidelity and enthusiasm to his new duties of re-
moving from the path of pious and promising young men who were
seeking to educate themselves for the Christian ministry, some of
the most serious obstacles which hedged and blocked their way.
From two to four hundred were usually thus at the same time under
his oversight. Sagacity, approachableness, and thorough friendliness,
with the ability, in need, to administer salutary reproof, and always
to hold a just as well as steady hand amidst the balancings of proba-
bilities, were all required to fill well his place ; and he filled it well.
In 18G0, largely for the convenience of greater nearness to his office,
he removed his residence to West Newton, where the Rev. Henry J.
Patrick, an alumnus of Andover in 1853, who had been six years
pastor at Bedford, Mass., in a few months became his pastor, and
so continued to the end.

In 1843 certain Congregationalists, whose minds had been spe-
cially led to consider the importance to the country of the founding
of distinctively Christian colleges in the rapidly growing Interior and
the West, and who w T ere deeply impressed with the necessity of
some better system of planting such institutions, and of the wisdom
of some method which should shield the giving people or' the East
from being perpetually at the mercy of indiscriminate appeal from
them, founded "The Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and
Theological Education at the West." It remained a purely volun-
tary association, without formal legal basis, until 1872, when it was
chartered by Massachusetts. Experience gradually developed and
emphasized the fact that this new organization and the old American
Education Society had so many points in common as to make it
possible — and, if possible, then imperative — to unite them under the
economy of a single administration, and thus not only a little to
curtail current expenditures, but also to diminish, by one, the multi-
fariousness of the annual appeals to the Christian benevolence of the
Congregational churches. A new charter was therefore obtained
from the General Court of Massachusetts in 1874, in compliance

1890.] Increase Mies Tarlox. 15

with whose provisions the two Societies were brought together in
May of that year. Until 1877, Rev. Dr. II. Q. Butterfield, now
President of Olivet College, Mich., who had been the Secretary of
'■' the "College Society," as, for short, it had familiarly been called,

remained in that relation, having an office in the city of New York.
After that date the sole official charge of the united organization fell
\ } upon Dr. Tarbox, who held it until his resignation, in 1884, led to

the selection of Rev. Dr. John A. Hamilton to fill his place.

In that singularly apt tribute, which, in the funeral address, Rev.
Mr. Patrick paid to his parishioner and friend of many years, refer-
ring to the relation which during so long a period Dr. Tarbox had
held to the hundreds and thousands of young men whom he had
officially aided into the ministry, he said :

J The great work of his (Dr. Tarbox's) life is unseen. He wrought for

more than thirty years at the founts of influence, moving among the col-
leges, seminaries and churches, and putting his hand upon the great body
of students with whom he was connected aud corresponded through his sec-
*' retary-ship. No one can estimate the results of such sympathy, counsel and

I ^ aid, upon this large company of ministers. They were preaching yesterday,

while he was silent in death — but through them, though dead, he yet
speaketh.

During these three-and-thirty years Dr. Tarbox kept steadily on *.

his way. There were not a few discouragements. There was
nothing instant, popular, magnetic and appealing in the call which
he had to utter. And there grew up in certain quarters, a notion —

■j diligently fostered by certain brethren of a good deal of strong phy-

. \ sique, and even more of comfortable self-reliance — that a charity

which helps men into the ministry is a mistake ; that it coddles
candidates, who, if left to rough it for themselves, would, if they
deserved it, get into the ministry with a really much more useful
training in consequence of the hardships they had undergone ; and
that any young man incompetent to hoe his own unassisted row r into
the pulpit, had better stay out of it. And something was often said
in disparagement of the quality of manhood which the Education
Society fostered, as if, if not positively milksops, its beneficiaries
could seldom hope to win through the rule of the survival of the

I fittest.

The Secretary valiantly defended his cause. He went back to the
beginning: of the endeavor, and showed how brilliant all alonir, on
the lists of the great men of the Congregational faith and order —

1 , pastors, missionaries, college presidents and professors, secretaries

of benevolent societies and the like — were the names of those whose
early poverty, and the huge discouragements of whose lot, would
almost surely have relegated them to a life of meagre obscurity, but
for its timely aid. This method of dealing with the subject, which
he found to be very useful in his popular appeals, added strength to
his natural fondness for biography, and statistics, and suggestive

16 Increase Niles Tarbox. [Jan.

facts ; without purpose on liis own part training him thus for the large
work subsequently done by him in that department. To one with
a natural constitution as robust, and health as firm as his, to one
withal industrious and holding the pen of a ready writer, such a
6ecretary-ship offered many fragments of time, which, without injus-
tice to any honorable claim of the Society, could be applied to
various authorship ; and of these our friend made diligent use.
Naturally his past connection with the Congregational'ist, added to
the fact that the office of that journal and his own always happened
to be near together, for many years led him to write considerably —
as always acceptably — for its columns. Many of the little poems of
the volume to which reference will hereafter be made, were written
for and first published in its issues.

His career as an author, as I have said, really began in College, in
1838 — when he was three-and-twenty ; and I have been able to
identify the following miscellaneous productions of his pen — aside
from his annual reports, and his various pleas in the line of his
official specialty — which I arrange in the order of their issue ; and
which will thus show the habitual fertility of a busy man, who was
all along, with the exception of his last four years, tilling an impor-
tant and exacting office.

1 Harriet — A Sketch. Tale Literary Magazine. Vol. IV. 1838.

2 Tecumseh — A Review. Nciv Englander. Vol. I. 1843.

3 Midnight — A Poem. New Englander. Vol. I. 1843.

4 Fourierisra. New Englander. -Vol. IV. 1846.

5 George Hooker Coltou. New Englander. Vol. VII. 1849.

6 A Correct Appreheusion of God Essential to True "Worship: )

or a View of the Doctrine of the Trinity as it stands >- 1849.
connected with the whole Gospel Scheme. (Pam.) )

7 Tennyson, In Mem. — A Review. N Englander. Vol. VIII. 1851.

8 The College and the Church. New Englander. Vol. XL 1853.

9 Christ's Rule for Alms-giving. New Englander. Vol. XIII. 1855.

10 Aaron Burr. New Englander. Vol. XVI. 1858.

11 Theodore Parker. New EnqJander. Vol. XVI. 1858.

12 Winnie and Walter Stories (Juvenile), 4 Vols. )

1860.

J. E. Tilton $ Co.

13 Where do Scholars and Great Men come from? (_ y , ™ „-

Congregational Quarterly. j

14 When I Was a Boy (Juvenile), (Vol.) 1862.

15 The Hebrew Worshipper. New Englander. Vol. XXI. 1862.

16 English and American University Life. Boston Review. Vol.11. 1862.

17 Nineveh, or the Buried City. Congl. Pub. Soc. (Vol.) 1864.

18 The Curse, etc., on the Race of Ham. Am. Tract Soc. (Vol.) 1865.

19 Table of Members and descent of Council of 1865, etc. 1865.

20 Noah Webster. Congregational Quarterly. Vol. VII. 1865.

21 Universal Suffrage. New Englander. Vol. XXIV. 1865.

22 Old Connecticut vs. the Atlantic Monthly.) , r . VVTTr , 0/? -

New Englander. j Vol. XXIV. I860.

23 Tyre and Alexandria Chief Commercial Cities of ) 1QC «

Scrip. Times. (Vol.) / 1866 '

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1890.] Increase Niles Tarbox. 17

S. W. S. Button, D.D. Congregational Quarterly. Vol. VIII. 1 866.

Missionary Patriots — The Schneiders. (Vol.) 18G7.

Unitarianisra — Its Present Condition. ) ^ T , v ,^, rT , /»-7

New Englander. ) Vol. XXVI. 18G7.

Uncle George's Stories (Juvenile), (Vol.) Cong. Pub. Son. 18G8.

Origin of the Old Testament. Hours at Home. Vol. VII. 18G8.

Jonathan YA wards. Bibliotheca Sacra. Vol. XXVI. 18G9.

Forefathers' Day — Winthrop and Emerson. ) ,t i vvv iq~i

New Englander. ) Vol. XXX. 1871.

Timothy Edwards and his Parishioners. } v . "YTTT 1ft"l
Congregational Quarterly. )

32 Ruling Elders in Early New England Churches. \ v , XTV 1ft~9

Congregational Quarterly. j

33 Reminiscences of the Stackpole House. ) v , XXXTT 1R73

iVew Englander. )

34 Richard Salter Storrs, D.D. Congregational) v , atvT 1ft~4.

Quarterly. j

35 Plymouth and the Bay. CW#. Quarterly. Vol. XVII. 1875.

36 Genesis of the New England Churches. ) ^ r , ^a-vt\7 io~~

New Englander, ) Vol. XXXIV. 18,5.

37 Battle of Bunker Hill. New Englander. Vol. XXXIV. 1875.

38 Life of Israel Putnam. (Vol.) Lockwood, Brooks S? Co. 1876.

39 Gov. William Alfred Buckingham. Conor e- \ Tr , VTrrTT , ~-

7 ^ ' 7 ° J > Vol. XVIII. 18/6.
galional Quarterly. )

40 Samuel Adams. N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register. Vol. XXX. 1876.

41 John Dwhrht and his Descendants. New) TT , VAr ,^ r ..o-^

^ 7 7 ^ Vol. XXXV. 18/6.
Englander. j

42 The Religious and Ecclesiastical Contrast within the bounds 1

of Suffolk West Conference, between the years > 1876.
1776 and 1876. (Pamphlet.) )

43 Rev. Selah Burr Treat. Cong. Quarterly. Vol. XIX. 1877.

44 Early New England Psalmody. Bibliotheca} ^ , _._.^ VT -jo-q

Sacra. j

45 Our New England Thanksgiving histori- ) Tr , ,«,.

,, ° .j j - Ar p j , y Vol. XXXVIII. 18/9.
cally considered. N. Bnglander. )

46 Advantages of private Instruction for the) T , , „„„- riT 1QCA

° Ar . . \ r>if .i & r vol. XXXV11. lobO.
Mmistrv. hibholheca Sacra. )

47 William Ely. Memorial Biographies. Vol. I. 1880.

48 New England Poetry of the 17th Century. | , T ,

New Englander. )

49 The Light of Asia. New Englander. Vol. XXXIX. 1880.

50 Alfred Hawkins. Memorial Biographies. Vol. II. 1881.

51 Private Instruction for the Ministry. ) Tr . wwttt ioqi

75.77. ,70 r vol. XXXV111. 1681.
Blbliotheca Sacra. )

52 Congregational Trinitarian Churches in Boston ) -r r , jyy ift^'i

since 1780. Mem. Hist. Boston. j

53 Nathan Strong, D.D. N. E. Hist, and Gen.') Tr , ~ r - r ~ r ~ TTT -.000

54 Thomas Robbins, D.D. Memorial Biographies. Vol. III. 1883.

55 Chapter of Connecticut Reminiscences. ) Tr , VTTT 1000

New Englander. \ Vol. XLII. 1883.

56 Elam Smaller, D.D. Memorial Biographies. Vol. III. 1883.

57 Sir Walter Ralegh, and his Colony. (Vol.) 1884.

18 Increase Niles Tarbox. [Jan.

58 Thomas Robbins, D.D. N E. Hist, and] ^ r , Yvvmn 100 .

Gen. Register. j Vol. XXXVHL 1884.

59 Jonathan Edwards as a Man. New Englander. Vol. XLTIL ]884.

60 The First Church of Hartford. New Englander. Vol. XLIII. 1884.

61 Songs and Hymijs for Common Life. (Vol.) D. Clapp 8? Son. I88C.

62 Review of Prof. Dexter's Yale Biographies, etc. ) ^ r , VT , r - ftft/ .

New Mnglcmder. f Vol. XLV. 1886.

63 Review of Dr. Woods's History of Andover. ) Tr , VTT7 . , n n^

New Englander. \ VoL XLV ' 1886 '

64 Diary of Thomas Robbins. (Vol.) Vol.1. 1886.

65 Diary of Thomas Robbins. (Vol.) Vol.11. 1887.

66 John Tarbox of Lynn, and his Descendants. ) Tr , VTTT 1QQ o

N E. Hist, and Gen. Register. \ VoL AL1L 18 * 8 '

67 Beliefs that dishonor God. New Englander. Vol. XLVII. 1888.

Of these the eighth, ninth, thirteenth, forty-sixth and fifty-first,
were obviously suggested by their author's special studies in con-
nection with the office which he held.

Two and fifty articles, most of them upon subjects to require re-
search, and of a magnitude to absorb many hours of solid application ;
and fifteen volumes — the last two of which contain nearly 2200 of the
largest sized octavo pages of not large type, and which although the
task was only that of editing and not of composing, heavily taxed
that editor's skill and care in the abundance of the details for their
multifarious notes, and the preparation of their admirable indexes of
fifty-four solid three-column pages of the finest available type !

But this was by no means all. In 18fi3, Mr. Tarbox accepted
an election as a resident member of this Society — which, in his ca.se,
meant a working member. And since that time our quarterly
journal has been again and again enriched by contributions from
his pen not formally enumerated above. Of these there have been
many notices of books, and since, in 1881, he was appointed our
historiographer, his contributions to our necrology continued careful,
constant and trustworthy until the pen dropped from hid hand.*

Such well-wrought work seldom fails of recognition and respect,
and, in 1869 — by that curious coincidence with which such lightning
sometimes strikes an unanticipating sufferer — Mr. Tarbox simul-
taneously received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from
Iowa College, and that of Doctor in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.)
from his Alma Mater.

* The following resolutions, drawn up by Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, were then passed by
the Society :

t- Resolced, — That we put on record an expression of our respect and reverence for our late
associate, the Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, D.D., as an accomplished scholar, as an able writer,
as a Christian minister of worthily high standing and reputation, and as having demon-
strated the genuineness and power of his religious faith in the purit}' and sanctity of his life ;

That we hold in mindful memory the union in him of firm convictions and broad sym-
pathies, — of loyalty to his own views of truth and cordial and appreciating friendship for
those allied to him only by honest belief and upright purpose;

That his long, precious, and indefatigable services as a member and officer of this Society
demand no ordinary tribute of commemoration, ami claim for him an honored place among
the foremost names in our special department of research and investigation; and

That a copy of the above resolutions be transmitted to the family of the Rev. Dr. Tarbox.

1890.] Increase Mies Tarbox. 19

Beginning as a general writer, with a special trend toward poetry
and criticism, in connection with his peculiar studies in the office
which he held, Dr. Tarbox gradually came to have an extended and
accurate familiarity with the ancient ways in New England, and to
be regarded as an authority in her history.

Dr. Tarbox was welcome in all pulpits. And even those whose
prejudices against " agents " impaired their interest in his appeals
j for the Society which he represented, were glad when they gut a

i chance to hear him "preach the Gospel." One of his seminary

\ companions, who has just been called to join him in a better world,*

; in one of his last letters, dictated after his hand could no longer hold

| the pen, said of his old friend :

) At our second interview we walked half way to West Haven, and back,

/ and at that time a friendship was cemented which never cooled. He was a

thoroughly honest and candid man, without art or guile; a faithful and
i successful pastor, and an admirable Secretary. He was one of the best

I sermonizers I have ever known intimately.

A vein of quiet pleasantry ran through Dr. Tarbox's nature, which
often came to his relief in the discussion of a dry subject, and which
made him specially acceptable at the meetings of Congregational
clubs, College festivals, all manner of church and town anniversaries,
and the like. A specimen of this happens to be at hand in some
verses on "Timothy D wight," which were read before the Yale
Alumni Association of Boston and vicinit} 7 in its annual assembling
in February, 1887, — one large part of the fun of which consisted
in the presence of the distinguished president of the university, who
now bears and adorns the venerable name. As the parsons used
, often to say, "we will now use the first three, and the last three,

stanzas," thus :

I sing of Timothy Dwight,

That manyheaded man,
"Who first appeared upon these shores

When Dedham town began.

He trod the Dedham wilds,

A stirring boy of live.
But did his part before he died

To stock the family hive.

With six most worthy wives

And fourteen children dear,
He gave the race a vigorous start

That reaches dowu to here.

How many Timothy Dwights

Now live upon the earth,
Who to the Dedham youngster

Can surely trace their birth ;

The Rev. Abyah Perkins Marvin, who died in Lancaster, Mass., Oct. 19, 1889.

20 Increase Niles Tarbox. [Jan.

How many Timothy Dwiglits

The future sluill unfold,
In the dispersion of the tribes,

Must here be left untold.

But certain 'tis,"and sure,

That since the race set out
In Dedham woods, the Timothy Dwights

Have always been about.

In a different mood, into which sarcasm crept, he delighted the
Congregational Club of Boston on Forefathers' Day, in 1880, by his
delineation of a "Pilgrim Father" reconstructed to " meet the de-
mands of the age." In the course of this he said :

The Pilgrim Father should have been a man

Who had no private prejudice to smother,
Built on a large, expansive, liberal plan,

To whom one thing were good as any other;
"Who, had he lived back when the race began,

Would not have minded though Cain killed his brother ;
A man so very round, and full, and pious

As to be free from everyjshade of bias.

He should have patronized with equal zeal

Every adventurous and random rover;
Have freely shared his dear-bought common weal

With every renegade that might come over ;
i-ieady to grant each wanderer's appeal,

Whether he hailed from Holland, Dublin, Dover;
A man who held it strict impartiality

Not to distinguish virtue from rascality.

He should have been landed on this western shore

With less of Bible, and with more of science ;
Bible is good, but had he pondered o'er

What science taught, and made that his reliance,
He could have reared from his exhaustless store,

An empire grand, and bid the world defiance :
Great pity that with chances so prodigious

He should have been a trifle too religious !

Not every day do we find such ability as Dr. Tarbox had to drudge
intelligently and untiringly among dusty and obsolete facts, conjoined
to the vivacity of a highly imaginative and really poetic nature.
But no man, we think, can read the little volume so pleasantly
named Songs and Hymns for Common .Life, without according
to its author some possession of the true power of verse. His was
not the case of the clerk to whom Pope referred :

Who pens a stanza when he should engross;

but rather, like Pope himself, he —

— lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

1890.] Increase Mies Tarbox. 2 i

Those who remember his Phi Beta Iiap])a poem at Yale in
1871, or who have been so fortunate as to secure a copy of the
privately published and privately distributed volume above named,
will readily concede to its author a place in the list of American
poets.

What can be more exquisite, as a vers de famille, than his "My
i Little Playmate," the spirit of which comes out in its first and last

1 stanzas, thus :

\ I am a grandsire, journeying close

On three-score years and ten;
And when my daily tasks are done,
j And laid aside my pen,

\ I call my little playmate in

/ Now passing on to three,

\ For I have need as much of her

) As she has need of me.

# # # # # * * .

Oh let me never grow too old
\ To join in merry glee

With any bright and laughing child
) That climbs upon my knee ;

1 Let me still keep the sportive mind

Until my dying day,
For what is life, in all its length,
Without the children's play ?

After the resignation of his secretaryship at the age of a little more
than sixty-nine, Dr. Tarbox, still in fair vigor of health, frequented
his home, husbanding the resources which years of diligent and pru-
dent toil had made ready for such a day, and gave himself more
entirely to his loved literary work. A glance back at the list of the
productions of his fertile pen already given, will show the remarkable

; total, for his last four years of life, of seven review articles or critical

essays, and four volumes, two of which were of large size, and most
exacting in their demands upon him for proof-reading, and indexing,
as well as editing. Perhaps he over-wrought. At any rate lie

j took refuge in a milder climate for the winter of 1887-8, in the

grateful company of relatives from New Haven, Conn. In the
Davis Hotel, at Kittrell, N. C, he found great comfort and decided
benefit, until somehow he w T as smitten with acute congestion of the
lungs, during which he was- insensible for several hours, and which
almost terminated his life, and the exhaustion from which, no doubt,
did end it after his return.

The writer had a charming letter from him toward the last of
February, in which he referred tenderly to what was a strong point
with both of us — the Pilgrim Fathers ; and illustrated the generosity
of his nature by over-praising a word-picture, which, in unwonted
verse, 1 had some time before attempted of the happenings at Plymouth
on Monday, 11-21 Dec. 1620.

VOL. XLIV. 3

22 Increase Niles Tarbox. [Jan.

Dr. Tarbox was spared to return home, and after a little resting
from his journey, he went into town to his haunts near the comer of
Beacon and Somerset Streets ; spending some hours in the Genea-
logical rooms, and among his old confreres in the Congregational
House, who little realized that they were bidding him at once wel-
come and good-bye. He had just strength enough left to get home,
and there laid down upon the lounge among the books that he loved,
and in close converse with which his whole life had been spent ; and
having declared his state to be one of perfect peace with God and
man, he quietly breathed there his last breath. This was on Thurs-
day, May 3, 1888, when he was seventy-three years, two months
and twenty-three days old.

There had been still a sense of youth, and an appetence for life,
in him. He had a generous and hearty sympathy with what is best
here, but his conversation had been in heaven, — or, as the New
Version puts it, — his citizenship was there. It did not appear that
he was taken by surprise. He had thought the whole subject over,
and while he would have been glad to have worked here a little
longer, had such been God's will, he humbly felt that he was pre-
pared for death, whenever and however God might call. He ten-
derly loved his surviving children and those children's children. He
loved his pastor and his church, and he loved his friends, and took
comfort in the large and honorable circle of his literary associates.
But, beyond question, he esteemed it w very far better " to "depart
and be with Christ."

His funeral service was attended on the following Monday (May
7), in the Congregational Meeting-house in YTest Newton, where he
had worshipped ; his pastor, Rev. II. J. Patrick, making a fitting and
beautiful address, the service being shared by the Rev. George A.
Gordon of the Old South Church in Boston, and the Rev. Dr. Daniel
Butler of AYaverley, one of Dr. Tarbox's very old friends and co-
Secretaries.

It was an ideal spring day, and as in the slanting sunlight the
body was laid by the side of his dear wife and the two iiuie ones
who had gone before, it was in the full assurance of a glorious im-
mortality ; and with an impulse on the part of his fellow- workers,
as from the place of his well-earned repoee they retraced their ^teps
to what might remain of their own life-toil, to give diligent heed to
those pregnant words of the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews :

We desire that each one of you may shew the same diligence unto the
fulness of hope even to the end : that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of
them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Dr. and Mrs. Tarbox had four children, viz. : —

i. Charles Porter, born 11 July, 1846; died 12 Sept. 1849.
ii. Susan Waters, b. 10 Nov. 1819; in. 10 Sept. 1872, Samuel
Carr, Jr., Esq., of Boston, President of the Central Lank.

■

i !

3890.] Letters of CoL Thomas Westbrook and others. 23

iii. Mary Porter, b. 22 Oct. 1851; m. 26 Oct. 1876, F. F.
Raymond, Esq., of the law firm of Clarke & Raymond, Boston.
iv. Helen Jane, b. 26 Feb. 1854 ; d. 7 April, 1858.

And now, how better can we all take leave of that thought of our
brother beloved which it has been the object of these pages to bur-
nish to a momentary recognition, than in his own sweet words on
« The Good Man's Death "?

1 Go, take thy rest: the day is done,

And all its toil and burden o'er,
No more the heat of burning sun,

The pelting storm shall break no more.

Go, take thy rest : a good man dies,
And yields his spirit back to God;

But on his path a radiance lies,
A light o'er all the fields he trod.

Go, take thy rest : the night comes on,

And stars shine out along the sky;
But night fortells a fairer dawn,
j ( Whene'er the good and faithful die.

LETTERS OF COLONEL THOMAS WESTBROOK,

AND OTHERS,

Relative to Indian Affairs in Maine, 1722-1726.

Communicated by "William Blake Trask, A.M., of Dorchester.

THOMAS WESTBROOK of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was,
perhaps, a son of Thomas Westbrook, for many years a member
of the State Council in New Hampshire, who died in the year 1736.
Captain Westbrook, subsequently promoted to the office of Colonel,
was ordered by the Massachusetts government to range through the
country from Kennebeck to Penobscot, and prosecute, as had been
expressed, K the Eastern Indians for their many breaches of covenant "
with our people. Some of the details of these expeditions, and the
military movements attending them, are interestingly, and, we doubt
not, correctly related, in the letters before us, from the fall of the
year 1722 to 1726. The Westbrook letters written, probably by
dictation, have the autograph signatures of the Colonel. He was
afterwards engaged as an agent in obtaining masts for the royal
navy. His speculations in Eastern lands commenced, as we have
been informed, as early as the year 1719, and were continued, not-
withstanding the unsettled condition of the times, some nine or ten
years. In August, 1727, he became a citizen of Falmouth, and soon
after built a house at Stroudwater in that town. He was considered
an important and honorable member of the place where he lived. His

24 Letters of Col. Thomas Wesibrook and others. [Jan.

death occurred February 11, 1744. The maiden name of his wife,
who died his widow, at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, aged 75
years, was Mary Sherburne. Col. Westbrook left no male i^sue.
His daughter Elizabeth married Richard Waldron, the well known
Secretary of New Hampshire, a grandson of the noted Richard
Waldron, killed by the Indians in 1689.

The town of Westbrook, in Maine, six miles from the city of
Portland, was, in the year 1815, named in honor of the Colonel.
It was taken from the town of Falmouth, and included the village
of Stroudwater. In 1880, it had about 4,000 inhabitants. The
late Hon. William Willis, at the close of a brief notice of Col.
Westbrook (History of Portland, page 355), says: "The town in
which he lived justly perpetuates his name, and is the only memorial
of him which remains." It gives us pleasure, therefore, to be
enabled to publish the following muster rolls and letters, as well as
his journal, which it is purposed, hereafter, to print. With the
exception of a few extracts, and a communication or two to an
eastern paper, it is believed they are now for the first time made
public, presenting thereby a standing " memorial " to the name and
patriotic services of Thomas Westbrook.

See "Journal of the Rev. Joseph Baxter," 1717, Register, xxi.
54-59. Also same volume, page 348. Maine Historical and
Genealogical Recorder.

Names in the Muster Roll of the Company under Command of Thomas
Westbrook, Esq., from July to December, 1722.

James Armstrong, Lieu* James Nigh, killed

W m Wilcote, Serg' Caleb Benjamin

Michael Thomas, Do Isaac Sanger

Fran 8 Punchard, Clerk John Andrews

Joseph Brown, Corporal Robert Bailey

Alex r Matheus, Do Dan 11 Ryan

W m Wilcote, Centinel Robert Cohorn

Peter Parry, Do John Oakes

John Lee* David Woodwell

W m Beard Richard Mullen

Joseph Cory John Elder

Job Burgis Ephraim Indian

John Willington W m Jafireys

John Haly Isaac Francis

Tho 9 Lawrence Bryan Toole

Tho 8 Leanard John Dinsmoref

Edw d Painter W m Ligatf

Joseph Hunter, killed Joshua Rosef
Joseph Muckamog, killed

[The above Muster Roll was signed under oath, by Benjamin
Toole, Dec. 22, 1722. The sum of V2 pounds, 6 shillings, 2 pence,

* Servant to Tho s Gaige. + Detained by Col° Walton for Pilots.

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Wesihrook and others.

were allowed and paid out of the public Treasury, to the officers and
soldiers therein named, in accordance with the details as given by Mr.
Toole, such as entrance into and continuance in the service, wages,
&c]

Mass. Archives, Vol. 91, pages 87, 88.

[Edward Mountfort, of Boston, testified, June 5, 1725, to the
correctness of the above Roll, with particulars, as set forth when
shown to the Committee. The sum of G33 pounds, 1 shilling and
9 pence ordered to be paid.]

Mass. Arch., Vol. 91, pages 136-138.

es in the Muster Boll of Ooi Wcsthrooh's Company, from Nov. 22,

1724, to May 22,

1725.

Thomas Westbrook, Col

Joseph Nedd, Serv* to Coll

Jo 8 Bean, Cap*

Winslow

Moses Banks, Lieut*

Philip Trueman*

Moses Markham, Lieut

Edw d Leirs, Centinel

Eich d Davenport, Ens 11 *

Tho 9 Earle

Robert Peirce, Serg*

Moses Markham, Clerk

John Clark, Serg*

Edw d Painter, Centinel

Jam 8 Garland, Serg*

Jam 8 Webster

Jam 9 Irish, Serg 1

John Tomms

Nic° Byram, Corp 11

Sam 11 Libby, Serv* to Coll

Benj a Larrabee "

Westbrook

John Owens "

Morrice Fitzgerald

Simon Armstrong "

Joshua Cromwell

Jou° Lawrence, Centinel

Nath 1 Winslow

Elisha Berry

Sam 11 Perkins

Stephen Randall

John Staggpole, Son to John

Henry McKenney

Staggpole

Peter Harden

James Quach, Serv* to Doc*

John Cutler

Allen

Sam 11 Sabins

Moses Gold

Benj h Aytes

Isaac Howard

Nath 1 Breeman

Amos Nicholls*

vSilvanus Cambell

Peter Abbott*

W ra Eason

Rich d Mullen*

Francis Wood

W m M c fetricks*

Tho 8 Willcott

Benj a Larrabee*

Moses Attaquin, Serv* to Jam 8

W m Groves

, Otys

W ra Coyne, Clerk from

Eben Saunders, Serv* to Thomas

Moulteu

Barker, Esq

Peter Colliot, Pilot, Died

Isaac Waima

James Barber, Centinel

Dan 1 Hood

Jon a Dodson

John Darling

W m Merry fi eld

Jacob Hedge, Serv fc to Benjamin

Benj a Sopeane

Sole

Arthur Noble, Ens n

VOL. XLIV.

Dismissed.

26 Letters of Col, Thomas Westhrooh and others, [Jan.

Falmouth, Sep 1 23, 1722.
May it Please your Excellency,

I take this Oppertunity to Inform you that I Arrived at Piscataqua
at 10 o'clock In y e Morning The 15 th Instant & Immediatly Waited on
y e L r Governour [Dummer] of whom I reced. a Confirmation That There
was 5 or 6 hundered Indians at Arrowsick upon Which I Immediatly
return'd to y e Sloops In Order to Sail but the Wind proving Contrary I
was Oblidg'd To Stay till ye Next Morning o of y c Clock And then pro-
ceeded to Arrowsick where I came to an Anchor at One a Clock on
Monday Morning. I Waited upon Coll. Walton who Told me y e Indians
were Withdrawn & that he Intended to March that Day with 180 Men To
Way lay the Indians In Their Carrying Places and Desired our Company.
Butt In as Much as the Indians were withdrawn I was willing To make
my best way To S e Georges fearing ye Enemy might Attack it. Tuesday
About five a Clock we Came To Sail & Came To the Mouth of S*. Georges
River on Wednesday Morning And not having a fair Wind went up In five
Whale boats To the fort which I found In good Order the Indians having
Attacked it y e 24 th of August and Kill'd 5 Men y* were out of the Garrison.
They Continued Their Assault 12 Days & Nights furiously Only now and
Then under a flagg of Truce They would have perswaded them to yeild
of the Garrison Promissing Them to give Them good Quarters and Send
them To Boston. The Defend 19 Answ ra Were That they Wanted no
quarters at their Hands. Daring them Continually To Come on and told
them it was King Georges Lands And That they would not Yeild them up
but with the Last Drops of Their Blood. The Indians Were Headed by
y e fryar who Talked with Them under a flag of Truce and Likewise by
Two french Men, as they Judg'd them to be. they Brought with them five
Captives y' they took at S* Georges 15 th June last and Kept them During
the Seige. Butt upon their Breaking up Sent M r John Dunsmore One of
the Said Captives to y e fort to know Whether they would redeem them or
no. Our People Made Ansvv" they had no Order So to Do, neither Could
they do it. Upon which M r Dunsmore return'd to the Indians and they
Carry'd the Captives Back to Penobscutt Bay, and Then frankly released
Three of Them Vizt. M r John Dunsmore, M r Thomas Foster and M r
William Ligett. One Joshua Rose y { was taken at Aforesaid Time and
place And whom the Indians had left Behind at Penobscutt Fort Made his
Escape & After Six Days Travell Arrived at y e Fort y e Second Day After
the Seige Began he being Oblidged To make his Wav Through the Body
of y e Indians To Gett To The fort and was Taken In at One of the Ports.
I now Detain the four Captives Aforesaid to be as Pilotts to Penobscutt
Fort Untill I know your Excellency's Pleasure About them. They Inform
me that the Indians have rebuilt Their fort at Penobscutt Since the 1 o ih of
June Oblidging Them To Work on it. It Contains Ab* 12 Kodd Square
Enclos'd With Stockado's of 12 foot High, it has 2 Flankers on the East
The Other on y e West, and 3 Gates not at that Time Hung, they Have
Likewise 2 Swivell Gunns. It is Situated On an Island In a fresh Water
River Twelve Miles from y e Salt Water. The Captives Judge there is no
way of getting to the Island but by Canoes or ilatt Bottom'd Boats & it is
impossible to Carry up Whale boats by reason y e falls are 8 or 9 Miles
Long & [ ] is Very Swift and full of Rocks. The Captives Foster

& [ ] Affirm That They Saw 12 or 13 Barrells of Gun Powder

Brought To The fort By the Indians as they Said from Canada Ab {

1890.] Letters of CoL Thomas Westbrook and others. 27

the Middle of July. They have a Meeting House within a Rod or
Thereabouts on y c Out side of y° South Wall of the Fort it Being CO Foot
Long, 30 wide and 12 foot Studd With a Bell In it which They Ring
Morning & Evening. The s d Hose Informs me They had a Considerable
Quantity Of Corn Standing when he made his Escape. After I had viewed
y e Garrison I return'd In ab l an Hour & \ To my Sloop 8 Lying In y c
Mouth of the River and Sent up one of them With a few Hands upon
Deck as to Carry up stones To The fort and Sail'd with the Other Sloop for
Arrowsick full of Men To Induce the Indians Spys To Believe that We
had Intirely Left the place and That there was no Design against Penob-
scutt, and Likewise To Inform Coll Walton of y e State of Aifairs, not
knowing but that he Might have Orders To Make an Attack upon Them.
This Being all y t is Materiall I make Bold to Subscribe my self your
Excellencys Most Obedient Humble Servant, Tno s Westhkook.

Coll. Walton Desired me to Come Along with him To This Place To
See what forces that he Could Draw, which I Did Accordingly, and Brought
M r . Dunsmore and Rose along with Me. The Garrison at S l George has
Expended most of their Amunitiou During y c Late Seige and I Desire
your Excellency To Send p r y e first Oppertuuity 4 or 5 Barrells of Gun
powder with Ball, Swan Shott and flints Answerable, for y u Indians are
resolved To Take y e fort if Possible. If there be no Opportunity of Send-
ing it to S l Georges please To Order it to Arrowsick, and I will fetch it In
my whale boats.

P. S. The Captives Informal me That y e Most Part of y e Indians food
During y e Time of y e Seige was Seals which they Caught Dayly Keeping
out a party of Men for that Purpose. They Also Inform us & do Assert
That there Is great Quantitys of Sturgeon Bass and Eels To be Caught
Even Close by y e Island where Penobscutt Fort is
Superscribed : —
Cap* Westbrooks Lett 1
Sept. 1722.

To His Excellency Samuell Shute Esq r .
Capt Generall and Governour In and Over His Majesties

Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England.
At Boston
On his Majesties Service These

Mass. Archives, 51 : 364-367.

May it Please your Honour

I wrote To your Honour from Hampton the 22 d *
Instant, and acquainted you of My dispatches from Thence To The East-
ward by Leiv* Hilton, To have the marching Forces mustered at the places
of Rendezvous w th all -possible expedition, and I shall not fail to be with
them, by the time they are Assembled together; I am now at Portsmouth,
awaiting y e Arrival of one of y e Sloops to take me in, If She comes not
with this days fair wind, I determine to Sett out for my post tomorrow by
land, so that no time may possibly Slip uuimproved.

In perusing my Instructions, I observe, in case of extraordinary and
unforeseen Accidents, and in matters not particularly mentioned, Your

• This letter appears to be missing. — w. b. t.

28 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others. [Jim.

Honour is Pleased to Referr me to my own Resolves with the advice of my
Commission officers, upon which Articles I pray your Honours favour to
be Resolved, whether you Intended all y c Commission officers, or the Cap-
tains onely : This being all that offers at Present, I Take leave to Subscribe
(most Respectfully)

Hon ble Sir
Boston Jan : 24 th 1722-3. Your Honours

most obed* humble Serv*
Mass. Archives, 51 : 368-9. Tho 8 Westbrook.

Boston Jan^ 81, 1722.

S r I have received two Letters from you The First from Hampton of
y e 22 d inclosing Lieu* Hilton's Journal, the Other from Portsmouth of y°
24 th . I observe that you have dispatch'd Orders for all the Forces to be
at the Place of Rendezvous & that you intend to be att the Head of Them
with y e Utmost Expedition of Which I hope you will not fail ; and when
it shall please God you are there, that you will exert your self to improve
y e First opportunity of putting your instructions in Execution, especially
since y e usual Season for action is so far advanced that the least Omission
or Delay may probably render the Whole Expense of this Winters Cam-
pagne ineffectual & vain.

You'l have a Sufficient Supply of Provisions 'ere this, All the Sloops
being doubtless at Casco before now.

As to your Question relating to a Council of War ; You must call all
the Captains, that are near, & if you have not enough to make five at the
least, Call y e Eldest Lieu ts .

Your Stores being to be divided Two Chaplains will be necessary & I
wou'd have you to call M r Pier-point* for the Service, Which is all at
present, from Your Assured

Mass. Archives, 51 : 368-9. Friend & Serv*

W m DUJIilER

Col Westbrooke.

Agustaf Feb' 7 25 th 1722-3.

S r

Pursuant to instructions from Col Westbrook I Received 120 men
Equipt with snow shoes moginsons & Twenty Daves provision to march up

* Doubtless the Rev. Samuel Pierpont, A.M., who with his brother James was a graduate
of Yale College, in the class ofl718; son of the llcv. James Pierpont, of Nov Haven, and
grandson of John, of Roxbury, Mass. Samuel was ordained minister at Lyme, Conn.,
Dec. 12, 1722. "In crossing the river from Saybrook with an Indian waterman, the canoe
upset and he was drowned" March 15, 1723, at the early age of 22. His body was found
April 28th, at Fisher's Island, and buried there. He had an extraordinary gift, and was
a Boanerges in his preaching. Great hopes rested on him." — Allen's BiograpK. Dictionary.

f " At Small Point Harbor, on the south-west side of the town, is the site of a fishing
settlement established by the Pejepscot proprietors in 1716, with the name of Augusta. Dr.
Oliver Noyes, one of the proprietors, was the principal director and patron. Capt. Pen-
hallow, son of the author of a history of the Indian Wars, in 1717,' resided here. Dr.
Noyes, in 171G, erected here a rude fort 100 feet square, for the purpose of protecting the
settlers who were coming in rapidly. A sloop named 'Pejepscot' was employed as a
packet between this Augusta and Boston, carrying out lumber and fish, and bringing back
merchandise and settlers. The settlement continued until Lovewell's War, when the
houses were burnt and the fort destroyed by the Indians. Among those who came at
this time were three families of Halls, Glark, Wallace, Wy man, James Doughty, David
Gustin, Jeremiah Springer, Nicholas Hideout and John Owens." In 1737 an attempt at
re-settlement was made.— Varney's Gazetteer of Maine, page 445, article Phipsburg.

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Burncoat Harbour* Feb 17 27 th 1722-3.
May it Please your Honour.

These are to give you a short Ace 1 of my Proceedings since my last
w ch was y e 10 th of this Instant: Since w ch we have rang'd amongst y e Islands
and on y Q Main Land, between Kennebeck River and y e Eastermost Side
of Mount Desart Bay & have met w th nothing worth your Notice, Save
Numbers of Wigwams on all most every Island, & y e Main Land where
i' we have rang'd, w ch we judge were deserted in y e Fall; 2 French Letters

f Inclos'd w ch were found in John Deny's§ House; as also 2 Small fire Places

* Rarraseeket, N. E. part of ancient North Yarmouth and Pront's Gore, incorporated as
the town of Freeport, Feb. 14, 1789. — Coll. of American Statistical Association, i. 83.

f Captain Johnson Harmon, afterwards Colonel, was a native of York, Maine; served
under Col. Westbrook and Col. Shadrach Walton; died at Harpswell, Maine, leaving
descendants.

£ "Burncoat, a large island of Hancock Co., Me., off the entrance to Blue Hill Bay.'*
Lippincott's Gazetteer.

§ Letter to Capt. John Penhallow.

Mr. Denny has complained to me the L* Gov r . that you do not allow him his Quota of
Men according to you r Instructions, especially in time of Danger & that what Men you do
allow him are pick'd from the meanest & worst you have, and that when the Island is full
of Soldiers you quarter more upon him than his Share; His Hono r bids me tell you that
If this Information be true He expects the Grievance be immediately redress'd, And that

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others. 29

Ammoskoggin River &c. But after some dayes Travel I found the river
was wholley broke up & y c Designed march frustreat. Heartily Sorry to
See y° Governm 1 Disapointed in their Expectations, & willing to take the
best methods the Season would allow of, I took the pilots advice & with
y e concurrance of y c officers, Divided into three partyes who performed
Several Scouts, an acc u of which as well as y e reasons I could not march
further into y e Countrey, I here with present to Yonr Honour & shall Trans-
mit the Same to Colo 1 Westbrook p r the first. I have Given Orders to
Cap* [Joseph] Heath to repeat his Marches from Kenebeck river to
Ammoscoggin river & shall Keep y c rest of y e men continually moving
with Expectation of Speedy Directions from your Honour or my Colon 1
and have also ordered Cap 1 Gookin to Repeat his marches from Casco River
I - to Puscumscutt falls and from Thence to Harrysickett* & [ ] as y e

j Matt r Req"

I These 120 men y* I have the Honour to Command being most of them

Old Experienced Souldiers, It's a great grief to the perticuler officers &
no less to my Selfe, that wee were Obliged to march into y c woods in such
a season when wee had not a rational prospect of doing our Countrey
Service.

Four of my Souldiers Couming from Arrowsick the 22 d instant one of
them viz George Cary fired his gun att a Tree & an other of y c four called
Samuel Stockbridge being up a brest with y e Tree Shot at (but three rods
wid thereof) thought he was Safe; nevertheless the Bullet Struck a Tree
{ & Glancing very Straingley did unhappily Kill the s d Stockbridge. Upon

vewing y e place & Examining the Other souldiers present, I am fully Con-
vinced the fatall part of y e action was purely Accidental. However I have
I confin'd y e man Slayer & pray your Honour will please to give Directions

I ,-' in y e matter. I am Your Honours Most

Hum ble Serv tt
Mass. Archives, 51: 370. Johnson Harmon/}"

30 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others. [Jan.

at y e head of Mount Desart Bay w ch we judge had been made about 3 or 4
Days, Supposing there might have been 4 or 5 Men, who we judge made
no longer Abode there than just to refresh themselves. We now lye at
Burncoat Harbour & are ready to proceed to Penobscot, waiting only for
Wind and Weather, purposing after my Return from Penobscot to send
you a compleat Journal of my Proceedings w ch I have allready attempted
but was frustrated in my Designs of finishing it. Having examin'd y c
Quantity of our Provisions I find that we have not enough to lust Us
exceeding a Month. Our Whale-Boates are so shatter'd & Defective, that
they're unfit for Men to venture their lives in. We have not one Individual
thing wherewithal to repair them; on y e Behalf of w ch abovemention'd
particulars I have sent a Sloop to y c Treasurer expecting a Supply from
him ; & humbly pray that your Honour wou'd forward that Matter. By
Reason of My Hurry, & for Want of Conveniences I Can't give your
Honour so particular an Ace* as I cou'd wish for.

This being all at present I remain
Your Honours

Most Hum ble & Obed' Serv*

Tho 8 Westbrook.

P. S. I send you y e Letters just as I rec d them, supposing
part of one of them was torn oil before we found them, & pray that
your Honour woul'd send me a Coppy of y e Interpretation.
Superscribed: — Coll. Westbrooks Letters
Feb. 27 & Mar. 3, 1722.

North Yarm to have a Garrison allowed.
Parker Setts forth that there are severall Garrison Houses.
Eben r Boutel to be released from the Service.
Mass. Archives, 51 : 371.

Portsm Feb r 28: 1722-3.
Hon lble S'.

I Left Col : Westbrook y e 11 th Inst : on Sabbath day night about
12 of y* Clock. I accompanied him almost as far as Cape Newaggen. he
proposed to get to Pemmequid before day. he had a fine Night, the weather
Coutinued Very favourable, he had the benefit of y e Moon for about a
Week after, he went w th ab 1 230 or 240 men in y e Boats, y* Sloops were
to Sail in a day or two after to Burnt Coat Harbour.

Col: Westbrook w to y e Advice of His officers appointed me to Return,
& Gave me Instructions to Settle the Garrisons According to the appoint-
ment of y e Gen 1 Court, w ch have gone thro' & fill'd up, Except three or
four men at Cape porpouse & One at Sauco ferry w ch will be done at my
Return. I did not find Effective men Eno' in these Places Left to make
up the Number According to my Instructions. Berwick Scout Came in at
Sauco falls when I was there, they were much out in their Judgm 1 as to a
Direct Course, the Next day I order'd 'em Back & Prevailed with One
m r Stimpson to go their Pilot, & Six of Sauco falls Scout to Accompany 'em,
to mark y e Trees on y e Best Land in the most Direct Course for Berwick.

M* Denny have eqnnl Justice done him with others both to the Number & Quality of the
Soldiers & that the Men you Post at his Garrison be sober & orderly.

Mar. 22, 1722-3. Mass. Archives, 57 : 375.

1890.1 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others. 31

I Expect they are by this time Come iu, & am this minute bound to Ber-
wick to receive their Return, shall then make the Best of my way to S*
Georges Pursuant to Orders I have from Col : Westbrook, where I Expect
to meet him, or further Orders.

On the lb th Inst. I meet Cap 4 Harmon at the Head of Casco Bay Near

Illarry.sicket River, who was Return'd from his March, there being no Snow
in v e woods, nor the Rivers frozen they Could not go far, they went as far
as Boonamawakeego Ponds, where the Enemy had not been for about five
or mx Months.

Cap 1 Harmon then divided y e Army into three Parts, Cap* Heath was

to Ran^e upon Keunebeck River, he was not to be in, in 5 or Six days

j after. Cap' Gookius was Come in upon y e Head of Royals River, w th no

News.
% Powder, Ball & Flints are wanting for the Garrison at Falrn : Pap-

| poodoe, Spurwink, Black Point, Sauco and Cape porpouse, w ck Please to

Order to be sent to Casco & Winter Harbour by y e first Opportunity, to
be given out to the Several Garrisons.

1 am S r y r Most Dutifull

& Most Ob e Hum : Serv'

John Penhallovv.*

S* Georges March y e 23 d 1722-3f
May it please yo r Hono r
I My last Inform'd yo r honour of my Arivall in Penobscot river, and would

Crave Leave Now to acquaint you that on y e 4 th Instant I Sett out to find
the fort, and after five dayes march thro' y e woods wee arived abrest of
severall Islands where y° pilot Supposed y c Fort must be; here we were
obliged to make four Canoo's to ferry from Island to Island and Sent a
Scout of 50 men upon discovery on the 9 th Instant who Sent me word they
had Discover'd y e Fort & waited my Arivall. I left a Guard of a hundred
men w tU the Provisions & Tents, and with the rest went to y e Scout being
fore'd to ferry over to them; they had, & wee ccu'd see y e Fort but not
come to it by Reason of A Swift River, and y e Ice at y e heads of y° Islands
not permitting the Canoo's to come round, we were obliged to make 2 more,
w lh which Wee ferry'd over, and by Six in the Evening Arived at y e Fort,
Leaving a Guard of 40 men on the West Side of the river, to facillate our

return.

The Enemy had Deserted it in y e fall, as wo Judge, and carry M every
thing with them except y e Inclosed papers, nothing matteriall was found.
The Fort was 70 yards in Length and 50 in breadth, Well Stockado'd 14
foot high furnisht with 23 houses Built regular; on the South side close
by it was their Chappell, GO foot Long and 30 Wide Well and handsomely
tiuish'd within & without and on y e South of that y e Fryers Dwelling house.
NN ee set tire to them & by Sun rise next morning Cousum'd them all. We
then return'd to our first Guards & thence to Our Tents, & so proceeded to
y* Sloops being Judged to be 32 Miles Distant. M r Gibson & Severall

• John Pcnhnllow, of Portsmouth, N. H., son of Samuel, the historian of the Indian
v wr.rs had for his second wife, Ann, daughter of Hon. Jacob Wendell. He was a captain,
vmhJ died, siys Savage, before 1736. See "Memoir of the Penhallow Family," Register,
xxx "- 31. Mass. Archives, 51 : 372, 373.

t A pari of this letter is given in Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. viii. 2(i4, 2d series, as if written
by Oti» Westbrook, instead of Thomas, as it should have been. There is no reference made
to this kver of Col. Westbrook in the index to the second series of the Collections.

32 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbroolc and others. [Jan.

others Sick with a Guard not being Arived; and when they Arived Wee
fell down the River At y e Mouth whereof on y° 2G th Current at 3 of y°
Clock in y e morning the Reverend M r Gibson Dyed.* Wee Arived at
this place the 20 th Instant where wee Decently Interr'd him, and three
more of our men with y° usuall form. Wee have 50 men now Sick which
has Exhausted our stores for y c Sick. I have Wrote to M f Treasurer
Allen for a fresh supply or y e men Will & do already Surfer Extreamly for
want. I have made bold to give Liberty to Licv* Buckminster to Wait on
yo r honour for Leave to See his family while y c forces are Recruiting.
Liev* Hilton has been 111 all this March and is now grown So weak that I
am obliged to give him a furlow home, and at his request Given y e Charge
of his men to Liev 1 John March a Gentleman of great care & good Conduct
and One I hope yo r honour Will favour w th a Liev tB Commission.

I have not heard from Capt Harmon Since I left him, only as Capt
Penhallow Informes mee he met him at York, & that he return'd from his
March in 5 or 6 days, tho' yo r Hono r will. see by the Inclosed his Instruc-
tions from mee & what Orders he had. Your honour Will Excuse my
not Sending a Journall of our proceedings hitherto as I fully purposed to
do, but am prevented by the badness of y° Weather & Incumbrance of our
Cabbin by M r Gibsons Sickness & Death, but shall not fail to do it p r next
op r tunity. Wee are now preparing our whaleboats w th Clabboards &c to
be in a readiness for Pitching them as soon as any shall arrive that we may
be ready for a March as soon as wee are furnished with Provisions. With
all Dutifull Respect I am Yo r Hono 3 " 8 Most Obedient Humble Serv',

Mass. Archives, 51: 376,377. Tho Westbkook.

Boston 5 th of Aprill 1723.
S r

I haue lately received Several of your Letters y e last of y e 23 d of
March giveing An Account of your March to Penobscott & distroying the
Fort &c there : Pursuant to your instructions which I hope will discourage
The Enemye from Sitting down y r againe. I shall Expect your Journal
by the first Oppertunitye. The Treasurer has Sent you all Sorts of Sup-
plys that have been demanded by a Sloop One Wyer Master who Sailed
about 10 dayes Since & I hope is timely Arrived with you ec you'l haue a
further Supply by this bearer. I am Sorry to Hear so many of your men
are Sick pray Let y e best Care y* Can bee Taken of them. You will haue
by this Bearer instructions for your further proceedings after y e 1 st of May
Which you must take Care to put in Execution with all Exactness : I
observe what you write on behalfe of [John] March and shall be very glad
to Encourage a Man you Approve soe well of when there shall be an
Oppertuuitye Cap* Gyles being very desirous of Coming to Boston upon
some Nessesary affaires. I Desire you 1 Let him know he has Leave:
saving a Charge with his Leu* to take good care of his Garrison in his
absence

To Co 11 Westbrooke I am S r y r Leu 1

Mass. Archives, Vol. 72, page 81. W m Dummer.

[To be continued.]

* Benjamin Gibson, A.M., grad. Harvard College 1719; Chaplain to Col. Westbrook's
company; " a Treacher and Writing School Master in Boston," says William Winturop,
Esq. Sec note, Mass. Hist. Coll., 2d series, vol. viii. 2G5.

1890.] The Butter fields of Middlesex. 33

THE BUTTERFIELDS OF MIDDLESEX.

By Geo. A. Gobdon, A.M., Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. .

HPIIE common spelling of the name in New England is Butterfield, and
J the same prevails usually throughout the United States; though
instances are found of Botfield, of direct German extraction ; and, occasion-
ally, of Boterville, the French form. In England, the family date their
arrival from Normandy in the twelfth century. Robert de Buteville held
two fees in Bedfordshire in 1165 and likewise in Norfolk (Liber Niger).
John de Buteville was possessed of the lordship of Cheddington, in Bucks,
in 131 C (Palsgrave, Pari. Writs). The name Botevyle occurs in the Battle
Abbey roll. The estate of Bouteville was near Carentum, in Normandy,
a town at the mouth of the river Xante, where are yet to be seen old forti-
fications, a castle and a curious Norman church (The Norman People). A
branch of the family settled at Church Stretton, Shropshire. The English
pronunciation indicates a corruption of the German word Botefeld (13cte,
a messenger, and feltJ, field, or clearing where the trees have been felled).
Similar instances occur in Butterley, Buttermere, Butterwick, Butterworth
in England, and perhaps Buterville in Ireland; the affix in each case de-
noting locality — ley meadow, mere pond, wick bay, worth enclosure — where
the messenger dwelt. Or, the derivation may be from b6tfeld, which,
among the Anglo-Saxons, was that portion of the manor, the timber of
which was reserved for the repairs of the manor house, buildings, &c, and
the mending of the fences. Such privileges were styled Hay bote (from
jjatc, hedge, or the land enclosed by it, and halt, repair). The official
charged with such repairs was styled the Hayward, whence the modern
word : as also Hey ward and Howard. Our word botcher, for a blundering
repairer, is a survival of this same bote in common speech.

Benjamin 1 Butterfield, from whom the American family chiefiy derive
issue, was at Charlestown, in the Bay Colony, in 1G38. He probably
married in England and brought a little family with him. His name ap-
pears among the first town orders of Woburn, and, in 1643, ho was made a
Freeman. In 1645, we find his name on the Woburn tax list. In 1052,
the inhabitants of Woburn petitioned for leave to explore the west side of
the Concord river. The report was, "a very comfortable place to accom-
modate a company of God's people." In 1653, Benjamin Butteriieid headed
a petition of twenty-nine, including the petitioners of the preceding year,
for a tract of land six miles square, ''to begin at the Merrimack river, at a
neck of land next to Concord river," to run southerly on Concord river
and westerly into the wild country. The spot was known to the natives as
Naamkeek.* The Indian apostle, Rev. John Eliot, about the same time
received a grant of " the Great Neck," lying between Pawtucketf falls on
the Merrimack and the Massic falls on the Concord, as a reserve for the
Christianized Indians. This tract was known as Waniesit. The six mile
tract was occupied in 1654 by Butterfield and his associates, and in 1655

* Ntiamkeek, or "Naamkeag, a fishing place, is cognate to Namoskeag (Manchester, N.
H.), Naumkeag (Salem, Mass.), Naineaug (New London, Ct.), Namasket (Middleboro',
Mass.), Nama'uukc (East Windsor, Ct.). mid Namskceket (Wellrlcet, Mass.).

t Pau't, to make a loud noise, and auke, a place, descriptive of the waterfall there.
VOL. XLIV. 4

34 The Bulterfields of Middlesex, [Jan.

was incorporated as Chelmsford. The line between the Indians and the
whites was run " on the east side of Butter-field's high way," and was
marked by a ditch. On this highway Benjamin Butter lie Id pitched his
farm and built his house, somewhere within the limits of what is now ward
iv., Lowell. In 1G5G, he is named as one of the citizens of Chelmsford, to
whom the Gov. Dudley farm of 1,500 acres in Billerica was conveyed. In
1661 his wife died, and 3 June, 1063, he married, 2d, Hannah, the widow of
Thomas Whittemore, of Cambridge, In 1GGG, Newfields, a tract of 241
acres of intervale, across Stony brook and extending up the Merrimack,
was granted to Chelmsford. Of this, perhaps the best land in the growing
town, Benjamin Butterfield obtained 42 acres, the largest share of any one
person. In 1G8G, the Indian reservation, Wamesit, was purchased by the
whites. Three of Butter-field's sons, Nathaniel, Samuel and Joseph, were
among the grantees (Mdx. Deeds, x. 19). This territory, which had been
occupied by Wanalancit and his tribe as a cornfield and fishing station, is
now occupied by the manufactories of Lowell. The purchase included,
also, 500 acres upon the north and east side of tire Merrimack, of " Wilder-
ness " land, a general term for the unsettled country outside incorporated
limits. Nathaniel and Samuel Butterfield settled on the Wamesit lauds,
and Joseph in the wilderness, between Tyng's pond and the river.

Summary.

1. Benjamin 1 Butterfield, born in England; inhab. of Cliarlestown,

1G38; Woburn, 1640; Chelmsford, 1654. Died 2 March, 1687-8.
His wife Ann died at Chelmsford, 19 May, 1661; he married 2nd,
3 June, 16G3, Hannah Whittemore, widow of Thomas. Children:

Jonathan, 2 b. in England.

Maiiy, b. in England; m. 15 Sept. 1G53, Daniel Blogget. She d. 5

Sept. 1666.
Nathaniel, b. at Woburn, U Feb. 1642-3.
Samuel, b. at Woburn, 17 May, 1047.
Joseph, b. at Woburn, 15 Aug. 1649.

2. Jonathan 2 Butterfield (Benjamin 1 ) was born in England, and

accompanied his parents in their emigration to New England, and
dwelt with them at Cliarlestown, Woburn and Chelmsford. He
married Mary, a daughter of William Dixon, of Cambridge, born
17 June, 1649-50. He died at Chelmsford, 3 April, 1673.
17 June 1673. Adm n on the estate of Jona. Butterileld, lately dec' d at Chelms-
ford, is granted to his father, Benj n Butterlleld.. and his father-in-law, W m
Dix, in behalf of y c children of y e said Jonathan. (Mdx. Court Records.)

An inventory of the estate of Jonathan Buterfielcl who deceased on the 3 d of
Aprill 1673. Apprized by us ^c. the 15 t!i of April 1673.

Thomas Hinchman
(Signed) Joseph iiicH.uiDsoN

Wm Dixon (Mdx. Prob. Registry, lib. iv. fol. 120.)

He was oue of the committee appointed to appraise the estate of Daniel
Blodget, 18 April, 1072, and, as such, signed the appraisal, in a plain?
round hand, Jona: Butterfeilde. (Mdx. Court Records.)

Children :

6. i. Jonathan. 3
ii. Mahy, b. 1670; m. 1st, Abraham Watson ; m. 2d, Samuel Whitmore.

She d. 4 Nov. 1730.

7. iii. (?) Joseph.

3. Nathaniel 2 Butterfield (Benjamin 1 ) was born in Woburn, 14

ii.

iii

iv.

v 7IQ258

1890.] The Butterficlds of Middlesex, 35

February, 1642-3. Married 31 December, 1669, Deborah Under-
wood, a daughter ot William and Remembrance Underwood. He
was a husbandman and dwelt at Chelmsford, where his wife died
25 June, 1001.
10 January, 1700-10, he divided his real estate in the north part of
Chelmsford, between his three sons, Benjamin, Samuel and Nathan-
iel, giving deeds to each. (Mdx. Deeds, xv. 159, 160, and xxxvi.
503.) An entry on the appraisal of the estate of his son, Benjamin,
in December, 1710, states that he was then living, "76 years of
age." Children :
i. ' William, 3 b. 5 Jam 1G86.

8. il. Benjamin.

9. 511. Samuel.

10. iv. Nathaniel.

v. Jonathan, m. Mercy Richardson. Both -were living in 1735.

4. Samuel 2 Butteufielp [Benjamin 1 ) was born in Woburn, 17 May,

1647, removed with his father to Chelmsford, where he remained
till his death in 1714. He had a wife Mary. Ills will, signed 26
April, 1703, " Samuel Buterfeld, his mark," was written by Eliezer
Browne, one of the witnesses, and probated 1 July, 1715. In it. he
mentions his sons Samuel and Jonathan, and his daughters Mercy,
Ann, Phebe and Deborah. It lies in the Middlesex Registry with
the following certificate appended :

Middx County

This Will of Samuel Buttcrfleld, late of Chelmsford in the
county of Midd x dee' d ; contained in two sides of this sheet of paper was Exhib d
for probate p r Samuel and Jonathan Buttertield sons of the s' d Dec'' 1 & E\ rs in
the same named & Jonathan Bowers made oath y* he together wth Nathaniel
Blodgit (now dead) & Eliezer Brown (who now lives in Connecticut Colony)
set to there hands as Witnesses in the Testator's presence & that he see him
sign & seal & heard him publish the same to be his last will and Testament &
that he was of sound mind & this Will is proved \- approved & the administracon
thereof is Committed to the s d Samuel & Jonathan Buttertield Executors afore-
said. Witness my hand and seal of office at Camb. July 1 st 1715.

Pr. Fka. Eoxcroft Judge Prob for Midd*.

Children :

11. i. Samuel, 3

ii. Mary, m. 30 June, 1698, Samuel 3 Spalding (John, 2 Edward 1 ) ; re-
moved in 170f> to Canterbury, Conn., where she died in 172G. Six
children, three born in Chelmsford and three in Canterbury.

iii. Ann, m. (prob.) John l)avis, son of the Chelmsford blacksmith.

iv. Phebe, m. 'How, of Plainfield, Conn.

v. Deborah, b. 20 Aug. 1G87; m. Joseph 3 Cleveland (Josiah, 2 Moses 1 ) ;
removed, about 170G, to Canterbury, Conn.

12. vi. Jonathan.

5. Joseph 8 Butterfield (Benjamin 1 ) was born in Woburn, 15 August,

1649 ; went to Chelmsford with his father's family. He married. 12
February, 1674, Lydia Ballard, daughter of Joseph, one of the first
settlers of Andover. He died in 1720, as his estate was appraised
on the 22d December, 1720. and inventoried on the same date. The
following is filed with the inventory in the Middlesex Registry, viz. :

To the honoured Judge of probats for the County of Middlesex
Honoured Sir,

After my servis presented to your honour, these may certifie you,
that through age and intirmityes 1 am not able to come to Cambridg : I earnestly
desire that dea. Joshua Fletcher may be put iu Administrator upon the estate

36 The Batterfields of Middlesex, [Jan.

of my deceased husband, for he is an honest man and one that is capable of
manageinj? such a work : which if your honour please to grant or alow of your
honour will much oblige your humble saruant

Chelmsford September y e lt th 1728 Lidya Buttkkfeild.

(Endorsed)

Sept. 16 172S. At the desire of the Widow, within named, of Joseph Butter-
field, only surviving son of said deceased, of Simon Tompaon and Ephraim
Waters, Husbands to two of Deceased's Daughters, Administration on y u said
Deceased's Estate is granted to Joshua Fletcher of Chelmsford, yeoman.
Joseph Butterfield of said Town Surety £300 I. It. J. P.

Children :

13. i. Joseph, 3 b. 6 June, 1680.

14. ii. Benjamin-
ili. Tabitiia, b. 20 May, 1687; m. Ephraim Waters.

iv. Isaac, ) v 2 0ct 1Gg9 . f d. 4 Nov. 1G80.

X)B, / b '

vi. Anna, m. Simon 4 Tompson (James, 3 Simon, 2 James 1 ), Town Clerk
of Chelmsford.

6. Jonathan 3 Butterfield {Jonathan, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford. Married in Woburn, 20 March, 1 693-4, Ruth, daugh-
ter of John and Abigail Wright. He was a husbandman at West
Cambridge, near the Foot of the Rocks, now Arlington. 150 Novem-
ber, 1G9G, he witnessed a deed at Charlestown (Mdx. Deeds, x.
531). In February, 1700, he was one of a scouting party (Green's
Groton) in the Indian Wars. He died in 1744, as, on 18 June
in that year, the widow Ruth and sons Jonathan, John and
William sign the mother's bond as administratrix of the estate of
Jonathan Butterfeild, late of Cambridge, deceased intestate. The
widow died 1753-4. Children:

16. i. Jonathan, 4 b. 1695 ; bapt. 1601).

ii. Mary, b. 1607; bapt. 2 July, 1600; m. 25 Oct. 1716, Thomas Frost,
son of Ephraim and Hepzibah, They dwelt at Meuotomy, where
she died 10 March, 1774.

17. iii. John, b. 1600 ; bapt. 2 July, 1600.

iv. Abigail, b. 11 May, 1702; m. Joseph Wheeler.

v. Ruth, b. 7 Sept. 1704; m. William Bobbins.

vi. Jane, b. 7 Aug. 1706; m. 20 July, 1720, George Cutter, sou of Ger-

shom and Mehitable (Abbot) Cutter. She d. 7 May, 1776.
vii. Lydia, bapt. 3 Dec. 170s.

18. viii. William, bapt. 24 Sept. 1710.

ix. Piiebe, bapt. 30 Aug. 1713; m. Russell.

x. Deborah,!). 1715; bapt. 3 June, 3716: m Samuel Locke, son of

Francis and Elizabeth (Winship) Locke of Cambridge. The) had

14 children. She d. 7 Sept. 1760.

7. Joseph 3 Butterfield, probably a ><>n of Jonathan* and Mary

(Dixon) Butterfield, married Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel and
Mary (Bunker) Richardson, of Chelmsford. Children:

19. i. Joseph. 4

20. ii. John.

21. iii. Josiah.

8. Benjamin 3 Butterfield [Nathaniel' Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford, and dwelt there all his days, lie had wife, Sarah,
whom he left a widow at his death, 24 July, 1715. Children:

22. i. John. 4
ii. Saraxi, b. 23 Sept. 1701; m. Zachariah Richardson of Chelmsford.

12 children.
iii. Mary, m. 17 Jan. 1737, Samuel Searles of Dunstable.
> iv. Lydia;
/ v. Abiaii, b. 1715; m. 3 Feb. 1737, John Head of Wcstford.

1890.] The Butterfields of Middlesex. 37

9. Samuel 8 Bctterfield (Nathaniel 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in Chelms-
ford, where he married 7 December, 1703, Rachel, born 20 Septem-
ber, 1655, daughter of Dea. Andrew and Hannah (Jeffts) Spalding
of Chelmsford. In 1704 he was granted the sum of £4, by the
General Court of the Colony, for slaying an Indian. In 1705 he
was captured by the Indians, and received shocking treatment. He
survived and returned home. He was a tailor, and died in 1737.
His will, made 24 October, 1734, and probated 2G December, 1737,
is on file at the Middlesex registry. Children :

23. ii. Ebenezer, 4 b. 13 July, 170G.

iii. William, b. 171.8 ; m. Rebecca, clan, of Capt. Jos. Parker of Chelms-
ford, and settled in Litchfield, N. II.

iv. Jonathan, b. 1721 ; had wife Susanna. In 1761 he was deer-reef of
Dunstable.

v. Mary, b. 1722 ; m. 1742, David Fletcher of Westford.

vi. Rebecca, b. 1726.

vii. Joanna, m. 1st, Parker; 2d, Robert Butterfield (12. iv.).

viii. Rachel.

ix. Hannah.

10. Nathaniel 3 Buttekfield (Nathaniel 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford, where he married 18 January, 1697, Sarah, daughter
of Lieut. William and Sarah (Richardson) Fletcher of Nottingham
West. She was born 2 G May, 1679. He died in 1749. leaving
widow Alice and children :

24. i. Nathaniel. 4

ii. Esther, m. Joseph Moores.
iii. Lydia, m. Foster.

11. Samuel 3 Butterfield (Samuel? Benjamin 1 ) was born in Chelms-

ford. Married Tabitha Butterfield, 7 May, 1730. He died in 1742,
leaving a widow, Tabitha, and an adopted son, David (12. ii.), son of
his brother Jonathan. His will dated 23 January, 1741-2, and pro-
bated 5 April, 1742, is on tile at the Middlesex Registry.

12. Jonathan 3 Butterfield (Samuel 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in Chelms-

ford ; had wife Elizabeth, who died early, leaving one child :
i. Elizabeth, 4 m. Adam Gould.-, - ..-**-• - ri •**" "*

He married 2d, Elizabeth, a daughter of Thomas and

Chamberlain of Chelmsford, who survived him. He was an hus-
bandman. His will, signed " Buterf'eild," made 10 July, 1723, was
probated 7 August, 17o6. Children:

David. 4 b. 1702.

Jonathan.

Robert, b. 1716.

Samuel,; of Westford, where he d. unm. in 1764.

Sarah, m. 16 Oct. 1744, Thomas Danforth of Billerica.

Mary, m. Perham.

13. Lieut. JosErn 8 Butterfield (Joseph, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford, 6 June, 1G80. He married Sarah, daughter of Ezekiel
Fletcher.

On the 27th of November, 1711, in company with a neighbor,
Joseph Perham. he purchased the Scarlett farm on the east side of
the Merrimack River, next the Dracut Line, now within the limits of
Tyngsboro'. This was a domain of 1000 acres, to which he at once
removed, erected a stockaded house, and dwelt there until his death
in 1757. The old homestead is still in the possession of his

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descendants. More than thirty children have been born on it,
while six generations of Butterfields have dwelt there. His will,
made 20 September, 1745, provided that his wife should be execu-
trix, but at the probate of the will, which was presented 2G May,
1757, we find this: " 2 Oct. 1759, Lieut. Varnuin, witness to the
will sworn, the other witnesses being dec d ; the exc x dyed before
the testator. S. Danforth, J. Pro." Children:

i. Benjamin, 4 d. num. ; a soldier at Cape Breton, 1745.

28. ii. Joseph, b. 1719.

29. iii. Reuben, b. 1727.

iv. A daughter, m. Small, and dwelt in Tyngsboro'.

v. Deborah, m. Moore of Merrimack, N. II.

vi. S Ait ah, m. Coburu.

vii. Hannah, m. 1742, Edward Coburn of Pelham.

14. Benjamin 3 Butterfield (Joseph? Benjamin 1 ) was born in that

part of Chelmsford, now Tyngsboro', 1680-85. He had a wife,
Elizabeth. They dwelt at, or near, Frances hill, now Westford,
where he died in 1714-15. Children:

Benjamin. 4

William, b. 1705.

Elizabeth, m. 28 Oct. 1728, Samuel Adams of Westford.

Esther, b. 10 March, 1700; m. G Dec. 1731, Benjamin Perliam of

Sutton (Ancestry of Gov. Perliam of Maine).
Mary, b. 1712.
Deborah, b. 1714; m. 9 Dec. 1740, James Bobbins of Grafton.

15. Jacob 3 Butterfield (Joseph, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in Chelmsford,

10 October, 1689, a twin with his brother Isaac, who lived but a
few days. Jacob had a wife, Phebe, who, left his widow, married
2d, James Duttou. lie died in 1728. Children:

i. Dinah, 4 b. 1712.

ii. Zachariaji, b. 1715 ; a cooper in Westford 1738.

iii. Aaron, b. 1720.

iv. Joanna, b. 1722.

v. Jacob, b. 1724 ; non compos.

16. Jonathan 4 Butterfield (Jonathan? Jonathan? Benjamin 1 ) was

born in Chelmsford, 1695. Baptized in Cambridge in 1699.
Married in Lexington, January. 1721, Rachel, daughter of John and
Rachel (Shepard) Stone of Lexington. Rachel was born 6 June,
1697. They settled in (South) Bridgewater, where he died in
1769. They had no children. In his will he gave a tankard to the
Bridgewater church, and tiie bulk of his estate to his grandniece,
Rachel Leonard, daughter of Simon and Ann (Smith) Leonard.

17. John 4 Butterfield (Jonathan? Jonathan? Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Cambridge, where he was baptized 2 July, 1799. He married, 1
March, 1725-6, Mary (Grant) Hill, widow of Abraham Hill.
They dwelt in Cambridge, where he was a shoemaker. He died
childless in 1749, and his widow married 2d, 4 January, 1750,
Abraham Watson, son of Abraham and Mary (Butterfield, 2. ii.)
Watson of Cambridge. Watson died 7 October, 1775; and Mary,
a third time widowed, in March, 1789.

18. William 4 Butterfield (Jonathan? Jonathan? Benjamin 1 ) was born

in Cambridge, where he w r as baptized 24 September, 1710. He
married, 12 December, 1733, Sarah Bobbins, daughter of Nathaniel
and Susanna (Chandler) Robbins. She was born in 1714, and
died in 1739. Children:

1890.] The Bit tier fields of Middlesex, 39

i. Mary** b. 15 Sept. 1734.

ii. Jonathan, bap. 21 March, 1735-G.

iii. Mary, bap. 5 February, 1737-8.

These three died in infancy. In May, 1740, he married 2d,
Mehitable Chamberlain, with whom he lived twenty years, till his
death in August, 17G0. His widow became, in 1770, the second
wife of Samuel Locke, whose first wife had been Mr. Butterfield's
sister, Deborah (C. x.). All dwelt at Meuofcomy, near Foot of Rocks.
Children :

iv. Sarah, 5 b. 31 May, 1741 ; d. 24 June, 1771.

v. William, b. 6 March, 1743.

vi. Jonathan, b. 27 Jan. 1745; m. 4 Aug. 1772, Mary Dixon, and dwelt
at Charlestown, where he died in 1775. 2 children.

vii. John, b. 11 Jan. 1747.

viii. Samuel, b. 15 April, 1750; m. 14 July, 1774, Elizabeth Bcmis.

lx. Sarah, b. 16 Feb. 1752.

x. Mary, b. 25 Aug. 1754.

xi. Abel, b. 13 Feb. 1757.

xii. Stephen, b. 30 Dec. 1759.

19. Joseph 4 Butterfield (Joseph, 3 Jonathan? Benjamin}) was born in
* Chelmsford (west part). He married Dorothy, eldest daughter of

Gershom and Hannah Heald of Concord. They dwelt in Westford,
where his name appears on the earliest tax list, lie died in 1711,
leaving widow and six children. The eldest son came of aire in

a t o

1749, when the widow petitioned the Court as follows:

Wesford, Dec. y« 8* 1749.
To the Honourable Samuel Danford, Esq., Judge of the Probate for the
County of Middlesex, the following petition humbly shoeth Dorathy Butter-
field widow, was wife to Joseph Butterfield hit of Westford Decascd, he
leving your Petitioner with three akers of land and six Children, the elder is
Eleazer Butterfield, being about twenty-one years old hannah Butterfield being
about twenty years old, martha Butterfield being about 18 year old Joseph
Butterfield being about 1G vers old, Ebenezer Butterfield being about 13 years
old and Dorathy Butterfield being about 10 years old Your Petitioner Humbly
Prayeth that you wold be plesed to grant that Liftenant Jabesse Keep of s d
Wesford be guardian for Ebenezer Butterfield and Dorothy Butterfield. Your
Petitioner humbly Prays that the land be settled on my son Eleser Butterfield
your petitioner has given my interest in said lands to my children and is in duty
bound shall ever Prayes. hear

Dorthy -f Butterfield.
mark
Children :

i. Eleazar, 5 b. 1727; m. 21 Dec. 1749, Mary Wright. They settled in

Townsend.
ii. Hannah, b. 1729.

iii. Martha, b. 1731: m. a Cleveland, and w T ent to Canterbury, Conn.
iv. Joseph, b. 1733; became blacksmith at Groton; m. 2G Aug. 1755,

Susanna Adams.
v. Ebenezer, b. 173G.
vi. Dorothy, b. 1739 ; m. Jonathan Fish, and went to Canterbury, Conn.

20. John 4 Butterfield (Joseph 3 Jonathan, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was an early

settler in Westford, where he had a wife Mary, and children :
i. Mary, 4 b. 172S.
ii. Thomas, b. 1730-1. /
iii. Charles, b. 1735. w
iv. Sarah, b. 1737.

21. Josiah 4 Butterfield (Joseph 3 Jonathan 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford; married in 1737 Hannah Farnsworth, of Harvard.
They dwelt on Frances hill in Westford. Children :

40 The Butterfields of Middlesex. [Jan.

i. JosiAn,* b. 1738 ; soldier in Capt. Lawrence's Company, Nichols's

regiment, 1758.
ii. Simeon, b. 1740.

22. John 4 Butterfield (Benjamin? Nathaniel, 9 Benjamin 1 ) was born

in Chelmsford and had wife Anna. In Jan. 1728-9, ho purchased
a large portion of the Hrenton farm in Naticook; 24 March, 1763, he
divided his Chelmsford lands between his sons, reserving life interest.
As, in 1766, the sons sold a large part of this estate, now the most
valuable part of the city of Lowell, to Thomas Fletcher (Mdx. Deeds,
Ixx. 478), we judge the father must have been dead. Children:
i. Ephraim, 5 m. 10 March, 1732. Elizabeth Davis of Littleton; dwelt
in Westford and had: 1, Ephraim, b. 1734, settled at Farmington,
Me. ; 2, Isaac, who settled at Wilton, Me. ; 3, Abraham, who settled
on the Kennebec; and 4, Rebecca, who married James Gordon,
of Wilton, Me.
iv. Benjamin.

23. Ebenezer 4 Butterfield (Samuel? Nathaniel? Benjamin 1 ) was

born in Chelmsford, 13 July, 1706, where he had wife Sarah, and
where four of his children werevborn. In 1744, he went to Dun-
stable. About 1750 his wife died. Children:

i. Ebenezer, 5 b. 26 Jan. 1732; in. 1760, Elizabeth Emery; had five
children in Dunstable. In 1700, lie removed to Farmington with
his family. He died there 2 April, 1821. A soldier of the Revolu-
tion.

ii. Samuel, b. 24 Feb. 1738 ; m. 12 Nov. 1761, Hannah Chandler, dau. of
Moses and Dorothy (Marble) Chandler of Westford, where slie
was born, 27 Aug. 1742. Seven children were born to them in
Dunstable. In 1781, he removed his family to Farmington, Me.,
of which he was one of the proprietors. He continued a citizen of
marked prominence till his death, 20 July, 1808. Five more chil-
dren were born to them in Farmington. :

iii. Leonard, b. 17 Nov. 1740: was twice married and had a family of
six children ; was a leading military man in Dunstable, ami became
captain. His descendants are in Dunstable to-day. He died 17
Nov. 1800.

iv. Jonas, b. 12 Sep. 1742 ; wife Esther. In 1770 he was corporal of the
" training band," and served two years in the Revolutionary army.
In 1781 he went to Farmington, Me., with his wife and four chil-
dren, and settled on one of the most valuable farms on the Sandy
river, where he died. 22 June, 1826.

v. Sarah, b. 23 June. 1746.

vi. Mary, b. 3 Oct. 1748; m. 1st, Peter Parker, and went with him to
Farmington, Me. ( >n his decease, she in. 2d. .J«. ! n i rencli Wood?.,
and lived to be 90 years of age, dying lo Oct. 184L

Mr. Butterfield married 2d, Alice . and bad by her three

more children. lie and his wife signed the Church covenant in
Dunstable in 1757. His sons were notable for their military careers,
and, after the restoration of peace, for their successful emigration to
new lands. Children :
vii. Jesse,* b. 28 April, 1752 ; was in the battle of Bunker Hill, a member
of Capt. Cummings's Continentals, and a tried and true soldier oi
the Revolution. In 1780. he married Lydia, dau. of Josiah and
Jemima Btodget, and, at the close of the war, they went with two
young children to Farmington, Me., where they prospened. 11^'
died G February, 1842, aged 90.
viii. Rachel, b. 8 October, 17."»4.

ix. Philip, b. 8 October, 1757: also a continental soldier; was twice
married and settled at "Wilton, Me. He had wife Mary and eight
children.

: «

1890.]

The Buttcrfields of Middlesex.

24. Nathaniel 4 Bcttereield (Nathaniel? Nathaniel? Benjamin 1 ) was

born in Chelmsford; married and had two sons, Nathaniel and
Elijah, 6 the latter of whom deceased in early manhood, lie was a
soldier in the French War, and died on the Crown Point expedition,
in 1758.

25. David 4 Butterfield {Jonathan? Samuel? Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Chelmsford in 1712. In 1724, he was adopted by his uncle Sam-
uel (9) who was childless, and in 1742 inherited his whole estate.
He married Kezia, who, with his adopted mother, Tabitha, were
widows on the estate at his decease in 1764. Children:

*; 1 Samuel, 6 b. 1749-50.

ii. Kezia, m. Benjamin Shed of Billerica, who died 19 Dec. 1700, and

she m. 2d, in 17G5, David Stickney, and removed to Grafton, Vfc.

iii. Jean.

iv. Esther.

v. Sarah, m. Jacob Manning of Billerica.

vi. , m. Dennis McLaue.

26. Jonathan 4 Butterfield (Jonathan? Samuel? Benjamin 1 ) was born

in Chelmsford and settled in Westford, at Millstone hill. Was a
soldier in the French War, serving from 1755 to 1761, in which
year he was Captain. lie signed his will 22 Nov. 1757, like his
father, " Buterfeild," and left his estate in equal divisions to his
three sons. Children :

i. Jonathan,* perhaps went to Pepperell, where had wife Lydia, and

children Mary, Rachel and Sybil.
ii. Reuben.
iii. Samuel. '

27. Egbert 4 Butterfield (Jonathan? Samuel? Benjamin 1 ) was born

in Chelmsford, in 17 1G. Married 7 January, 1744-5, Mehitable
Boynton, by whom he had four children :

i. Mehitable, 6 b. 1745; d. young.

ii. Robert, b. 1747.

iii. Joel, b. 1749; d. young.

iv. Elizabeth, b. 1752.

His wife died in 1752, and he married the next winter, 24 Feb.
1752-3, Joanna Parker, a widow, and daughter (51) of Samuel
Butterfield, the tailor. Robert was a sergeant in the French War,
and died at Lake George, 23 October, 175G. Child:
v. James, b. 1755.

28. Capt. Joseph 4 Butterfield (Joseph? Joseph? Benjamin 1 ) was born

in what is now Tyngsboro', in 1710. Pie grew up in what were the
palmy days of colonial life. The savages were gone, the bear and
the deer were plenty. The farms were fertile and crops abundant.
No political storm disturbed the serenity of the frontier. Money
was scarce, the churches and the schools poor, but game and fish were
plenty. The neighbors Perhams, Richardsons, Coburns, Vacuums,
Fletchers and Parkers were of a merry, festive character. Families
were large and healthy, good cheer was abundant, and, though
their lives were plain, their happiness was substantial. Capt. Joseph
Butterfield married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. William and Eliza-
beth (Coburn) Richardson, of Dracut, where she was born 27 July,
1724. Their homestead in Tyngsboro' is now the " town farm."
He died 4 April, 178G; and his widow, 2Q February, 1808. Chil-
dren :

42 The Butterfields of Middlesex. [Jan.

i. ASA,*b. 1759; m. Abiah dau. of Timothy Coburn of Dracnt; had a
family of four sons and one daughter, whose descendants are in
Tyngsboro', or the vicinity, Capt. Asa died, a very old mau, 2
March, 1853.

ii. Sarah, m. 12 Dec. 1705, Ebcnezcr Varnum.

iii. Rachel, m. 12 Dec. 1771, Bradley Varnum.

iv. Mercy, m. 1st, Elijah Fletcher, 2d, Isaac Pike.

v. Elizabeth, m. David Cumniiugs.

29. Reuben 4 Butterfield (Joseph,* Joseph, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born in

Tyngsboro' in Oct. 1727, and was the youngest of his father's family.
He was a suckling child till into his ninth year, and grew to be
broad-shouldered and of great strength. lie was the champion
athlete of his settlement, and could leap twelve feet. He married,
in 1745, Mary Richardson, b. 13 April, 1728, a sister of his brother
Joseph's wife. He was early in the Revolution of 1775-83, with
his sous, and soon was a captain. He was a participant in most of
the engagements of the Northern army. After the war, he returned
to Tyngsboro' and spent the remainder of a long life on his farm,
where he died 22 February, 181 G. Children:

1. Mary, 3 b. 6 Jan. 1746 ; m. Abiel Coburn, had seven children, and died

1 Feb. 1840.
ii. Reuben', b. 30 May, 17-49 ; a member of Capt. Bancroft's company at

Bunker Hill; subsequently a sergeant, and killed at White Plains

♦18 Oct. 1776.
iii. Levi, b. in 1751 ; d. in infancy.
*> iv. Levi, b. 29 Dec. 1753; a member of Bancroft's Company, Bridge's
/ regiment, 1775 ; afterwards a seaman, and engaged in privateering,

inwhich he was taken prisoner and carried to England. On his

way home, he died at sea.
v. Joseph, b. 20 May, 1756; m. Elizabeth Bancroft, went to Milford,

Me., and died there 15 May, 17S7. No children.
vi. Sarah, b. 8 Jan. 1759 ; m. William Sherburne of Pelham, where

she d. 23 Oct. 1833.
vii. James, b. 22 June, 1762; m. 27 Dec. 1787, Abigail Wilson, and spent

his life on the "Homestead," where he d. 28 Nov. 1856. Six

children. \

viii. Abnek-Rictiardson, b. 24 July, 1764; m. 23 Oct. 1791, Hepzibak

Buttrick, and d. 6 March, 1851. Nine children.
ix. Deborah, b. 7 May, 1767; m. 14 April, 1791, Reuben Richardson of

Dracut. She d. Dec. 1825. Eight children.
x. Benjamin, b. 16 Aug: 1770; m. Elizn, dan. of Jabesh Coburn of

Dracut. He d. November, 1853. Four children.
xi. William, b. 7 May, 1775 ; m. in 1800, Rebecca Queen, of Tyngsboro',

where they dwelt till his death, 19 July, 1849. No childreu.

30. Benjamin 4 Butterfield (Benjamin 3 Joseph, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was

born in Chelmsford, dwelt in Westford, had wife Kezia, was an en-
sign in Choate's regiment at the siege of Louisburg, 1745, and died
1747. Children:

i. Ruth, 3 b. 1724; m. 4 April, 1749. Aaron Chandler.

ii. Benjamin, b. 1726 ; husbandman ; m. 26 Sept. 174s. Susanna Spalding,
dau. of Jacob, of Chelmsford. They removed to Lunenburg, and
ultimately to Brattleboro", Vt.

iii. John, b. 1728; housewright; m. 2 Oct. 1750. Martha Trull, removed
in 1756 to Narragansett No. 6 (Templetonj, in 1759 to Groton, in
1761 to Harvard^ and in 17(»4 to Shirley. Had: 1, Benjamin, b. 29
March, 1751; 2, John, b. 28 July, 1753; 3, Abel, b. 5 Feb. 1756,
whose arm was torn oil' in a eider mill, 9 Sept. 1763; 4, Henry, b.
14 March, 1759 ; 5, Kezia, b. 28 Aug. 1761 ; and 6, Martha, b. 14
April, 1764.

iv. Timothy, b. 1730.

1890.] Deaths in Milton, Mass. 43

V. Kezia, b. 1733 : m. 23 June, 4755, Josiah Nutting.

vi. Mauy, b. 1735; m. 10 April, 1755, Lemuel Pcrhain, of Dunstable.

Six children,
vii. Abel, b. 1737 ; d. 17-45.
viii. Jonas, b. 1740.
ix. Isaac, b. 1742; m. 3 Dec. 1772, Ruth Spalding, dau. of Dea. Andrew

and Mehitablc (Chandler) Spalding of Chelmsford.
x. James, b. 1744.
I

31. William 4 Butterfielp (Benjamin? Joseph, 2 Benjamin 1 ) was born

j in Chelmsford in 1705. Married Bathsheba Shepard, daughter of

Abraham, of Concord. They dwelt at Frances hill, VVestford,
where bis name appears on the first tax list, 1730. At the earliest
I town meeting, 1734, he was elected hog-reeve. He died in West-

ford, in 1785, and his widow in 1793. Children:
i. Rebecca, 5 b. 1729 ; in. 1 Nov. 1753, Eben Ball of Townsend.
ii. Lucy, b. 1731; m. 11 Sept. 1755, Jacob Wright, Jr.
iii. William, b. 1734; d. s.jp.,.1793.
iv. Hannah, b. 1737 ; in. Lemuel Potts of Townsend.
v. Peter, b. 1739 ; soldier in the French war 1757, and in the Revolution
1775-83; settled in Townsend, wdicre and in Boston descendants
have been merchants.
vi. Abraham, b. 1741 ; a soldier in the French War, and died at Crown
L Point, N. Y., 24 Sept. 17G0.

vli. Olive, b. 1743; d. 24 Jan. 1749-50.
^>viii. Samuel, b. 1745.

ix. Bathsiieba, m. Lawrence.

DEATHS IN MILTON, MASS.

Communicated by the late Daniel T. V. Huntoon, Esq., of Canton, Mass.

Memorandum of Deaths in Milton.

1774. Jany 6th. Capt Lemuel Bent aged 46 years 8 mos.
Jany 9th. Mr Joseph Bent aged 39 years.
Feb 16th. Mr John Newton aged 86 years.

" Betsey Swift daughter to Mr John Swift.

" A son to Mr Elijah Keys.

April 15th. A son of Mr John Marshals.
May 6. Mrs Sarah Scott wife of .Mr Kite 1 Scott.

" 29th. Mr Antony Gulliver aged 70 years.
June 21. Lemuel Peirce son to Mr William Peirce.
\ " 30. Chloe Peirce daughter to Mr William Peirce.

Aug 7th. Mrs Susanna Badcock wife of Mr Nathan Badcock.
Nov 16. Mrs Sarah Adams wife of Mr John Adams.
Dec 2d. Mrs Bulah Marshal, wife of Mr Josiah Marshal.

1775. Jan 9th. Mrs Prudence Houghton wife of Mr Ebenezer Houghton

Jr 46.
Jan 28th. Mr John Badcock.
Feb 3d. William Cooper Gardner, son to Dr Gardner, 9 years.

" 28th. Mrs Esther Vose wife of Mr Nathan Vose, 23.
March 15th. Mr Moses Fenno aged 29 years.
" 27. Mr Thomas Vose aged 35 years.

44 Deaths in Milton, Mass, [Jan.

Aug

lCth.

18.

21.

28.

Sept

,2(1.

3d.

4th.

6th.

9th.

11th

April. Mrs Mary Cooper, relix of the late Rev Mr Cooper.
May. Miss Jane Smith.
June 19th. Miss Abigail Marshal.
June 30th. Mr Edward Crane aged 70 years.
July 8th. Mr Zephaniah Walker aged 21 years.
July loth. William Tucker son to Mr Amariah Tucker.
" 28th. Mr. Bicknell.

" Mr Joseph Hunt aged 79 years.

Mr. Enoch H or ton.
A child of Mr John Bents.
A child of Mr Seth Packhards.
Capt Jeremiah Tucker aged 63 years.
Miss Rachel Vose aged 32 years.

Mrs Sarah Houghton, wife of Mr Ehenezer Houghton aged 75.
Mary Wadsworth daughter of Mr Elijah Wadsworth.
A child of Mr Andrew Adams.
Fanny Vose daughter of Mr Daniel Vose 9 mts.
. Mrs Sarah Bowker wife of Mr Learzarus Bowker & Josiah
Vose, son of Josiah Vose.
12th. A child of Mr Seth Packards and Anne Glover daughter to
Mr Joshua Glover.
The Widow Mary Vose aged 69 years.
Joanna Ilorton daughter of Mr Elijah ITorton.
Samuel Davenport son of Mr Nathaniel Davenport.
Miss Hepzibah Glover aged 15 years.

Ebenezer Tucker son of Mr Ehenezer Tucker aged 1 years.
Mr Joshua Vose aged 33 years.
Listcomb Houghton son of Mr Thomas Houghton & Mrs

Mary Abrams wife of Mr Nathaniel Abrams.
The Widow Simson.

Esther Tucker daughter of Mr William Tucker, & Miss Lydia
Cauady.
" 12th. A child of Mr Joseph Badcocks.
" 30th. Mr David Blake.
Nov 3d. Mr Ebenezer Wadsworth.
" " Benjamin Vose son of Mr "Benjamin Vose.
" 10th. Mr. Ezekiel Blake.
" 14th. Mrs Elizabeth Whitney.
Dec. 3d. A child of Samuel Jones.
" 6th. The Widow Zibiah Whitney.
" 11th. Mr John Wadsworth.
" 22d. A child of Mr Joseph Jones.
" 31. Mr Josiah Brown.
1776. Jan 8th. Mr Caleb Lane.
Jan 12th. Mrs Hannah Badcock.
« 13th. A child of Mr Wimano.
- » 16th. Mr Simon Blake.
" 19th. Mr John Keys.
« 20th. Mrs Wiman wife of Mr Wiman.

" 30th. Mrs Bathsheba Thacher relix of the late Mr Thacher.
u 31. Mr Vevian Daniel.
Feb 7th. Mr Benjamin Sumner.
'* 11th. Silas Houghton son of Silas Houghton.

loth.

18th.

22d.

25th.

27th.

29th.

30.

Oct 1st. '

2d. I

1890.] Deaths in Milton, Mass. 45

Feb. 22d. Mrs Sarah Badcock.
" 23d. Mrs Elizabeth Hcnshaw & John Davis son of Mr Lemuel
Davis.
March 4th. A child of Miss Rebekah.

" 22d. Robert Calf son of Mr Joseph Calf, and Capt Samuel

Miller.
u 25th. Rebeckah Crane daughter of Mr Amariah Crane.
< « 31st. Mr. Joseph Calf.

May 13th. Mr William Vose.
t " 23d. Mr Samuel Tucker.

" 30th. Lieut Jessaniah Tucker and Mr John Marshall.
June 22d. Phineas Bronsdon son of Mr John Bronsdon.
July 8. Mrs Martha Marshal widow of the late Mr. John Marshal.
" Mr Naum Badcock at Crown Point, son of Mr George Badcock.
" 12th. Elijah Wads worth at New York.
Aug. 16th. Mrs Susanna Blake and child wife of Mr Enos Blake.
" Mr Josiah Marshal son of Mr John Marshal.
Samuel Tucker son of Mr Joseph Tucker.
Betsey Glover daughter to Mr John Glover.
Mr Joseph Haughton Jr at Crown Point
Mr George Badcock Jr at Crown Point.
Mr Moses Blake.
A child of Mr Jonathan Taunts.
A child of Mr Samuel Williams.
Mr Isiah Creltcre.
Mr Samuel Williams.
Mr Nathaniel Tucker aged 28 years.
Mr Stephen Badcock aged 28 years.

Mrs Elizabeth Vose wife of Mr Oliver Vose.
Mrs Bussey wife of Mr Benjamin Bussey of Stoughton.
A child of Mr John Celtons.
1777. Jan'y 22d. Mr Nathan Horton.

" 24th. John Randal son to Mr Samuel Randal.
" 31st. Mr Nathan Badcock.
Feb 5th. Elijah Vose son to Col Joseph Vose.
" 10th. A child of Mr Amariah Tuckers.
" 12th. A child of widow Martha Hortons.
" 14th. Mr Joseph Houghton,
« 22. A child of Mr Seth Blakes.
" 27. M6Sarah Talbot, wife of Mr George Talbot.
March 6. Miss Susanna Soper Sumner.

" 27th. Mr James Smith son of Mr Jeremiah Smith.
" 30th. Miss Amy Annis & John Calf son of the late Mr Joseph
Calf.
April 3. Mrs Mary Sumner.
" 14th. A child of Mr Gills.
" 20. Mr Richard Clark aged 72 years.
May 16. William Reed son to Mr James Reed.

" 15th. Mrs Horton wife to Mr David Horton.
July 2d. Mrs Esther Wadsworth, widow of the late Deacon Wadsworth.
Aug 19. A child at Mr Stephen Davenports at nurse.

" 29. Joseph Cummins son of Mr Joseph Cummins.
Oct 9. Mrs Vose wife of Mr Samuel Vose.

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Oct. 18. Peter Vose son of Mr Samuel Vose.
Nov 2. A child of Mr John Hannons.
" 10th. Mr John Pitcher.

i( " Mrs Sukey Iiavloyn, wife of Mr. Iiavloyn.
In the army this summer Mr Joseph Scott.
November in the army Mr Joseph White and Mr Soloman
Weld, and Mr Benjamin Badcock and Mr Nathaniel
Daniel.

1778. Jan. A child of Mr Lewis Miller.

" 18th. Doc Samuel Gardner.
Feb. 16. Mingo, a Negro man.
Mch 30. A child of Mr Ebenezer Bents.
April 3. Madame Belcher.

" 23. John Badcock son to Majr Joseph Badcock.
May 6. Mr Jeremiah Sumner.
" " Mr Stephen Crane.
" 21st. Mr Samuel Henshaw.

" 26. Thomas Vose son of Mr Josiah Yose and Rachel Bradley
daughter of Mr John Bradley.
May 28. Avis Davenport, daughter to Mr. Nat Davenport.
June 2d. Mr Lemuel Houghton aged 17 years.
" 19. A child of Mr John Marshal.

" 24th. Mrs Mary Gardner relix of the late Doc 1 Samuel Gardner.
Aug. 3d. A child of Capt Aveses.

" " " Mr Benjamin Peirces.

" «< " « Wilsons.

" " " the widow Mary Sanders.

Sept 8th. The widow Abigail Vose.
" 10. A child of Mrs Anne Hunts.
" 14th. Josiah Badcock son of Mr William Badcock.
" 26. A child of Mr John Bents.
Oct 8th. Keziah Crane, and Stephen Tucker son of Mr Ebenezer

Tucker. , I

" 28. A child of Mr Ebenezer Cranes.
Nov 9. Lemuel son of Mr Ebenezer Tucker.
" 10th. A child at nurse at Mr Silas Houghtons.
" 23. Mrs Elizabeth Horton, wife of Mr John llorton aged 23 years.
" 29. The widow Milatiah Crane, aged 08 years.

1779. Feb 15. Mr David Horton.
May 1. A child of widow Ruth Daniels.

" 23. Mr Samuel aged 77 years.

Sept 15th. Stephen Wadsworth, son of Mrs Susanna Wadsworth.
Sept 22. Sally Wadsworth daughter ol Mrs Susanna Wadsworth aged

16 years.

Sept 25. The Widow Bradford. (?)

Oct 31. Mrs Mary Marshal wife of Mr Josiah Marshal.
Oct 26. The Widow Jane Stewart.
Nov 30. A child of Mr Nathaniel Humphrys.
Dec. Doc 1 Jesse Tucker at Newfound Land.

1780. Jan 13th. Mr Joseph Cummins.

" 23. " Justus Soper.

" " A child of Doc 1 Adams.

April 14. Dublin, a negro man of Mr Brooms.

1890.] Deaths in Milton, Mass. 47

May. A child of Mr John Marshall.
June. A child of Mr Ebenezer Badcocks.
Aug 3d. Pompey, a negro man of Mr John Newton.
iC A child of Mr Oliver Voses.

" A child of Mr Timothy Oehores.

" A negro child belonging to Mr Broom.

Oct 19. Mrs Elizabeth Marshall.

November. At New York, Mr Seth Tucker son of Mr Joseph Tucker,
and Mr Nathaniel Rawson, son of Capt David Rawson.
r Dec. Mr David Boys. ;„

i 1781. Jan 21st. Mrs Sarah Henshaw wife of Mr Samuel Henshaw.

" 25. Mrs Thankful Blake, wife of Mr James Blake.
June 24. Mrs Eunice Peirce wife of Mr William Peirce.
j . Aug 2. A child at nurse at Mrs Abigail Crane's.

Sept 12th. A child of Mr Thomas.
• j " 23. Mr Jedediah Crehore.

Nov 6. A child of Mr David Sumner Jr.

I Dec 22. Amariah Sumner aged 30 years.

Feb 2. Samuel Henshaw, son of Mr Samuel Henshaw, aged one month.

1782. Feb 1. Mrs Elizabeth Holbrook, wife of Doct Amos Ilolbrook.
Mar 10. Lemuel Tucker son of Mr Timothy Tucker.

" Mr Edward Gardner.

April 9. Madame Elizabeth Foye aged 86 years.
« 20. A child of Dr Amos Holbrooks.
" 22. The widow Hannah Blake aged 81 years.
June 21. Mrs Jones wife of Mr Jones.

" 23. Susanna Pollock daughter of Mrs Susanna Pollock.
July 2. Mr James Nelson Boys aged 22 years. ^
Aug 23. "Mr'Thomas Swift aged 71 years.
Sept 14. Miss Esther Horton, 20 years.

" 26. Mrs Susanna Soper Relix of the late Mr. Justus Soper.

" 29th. Enos Houghton son of Mr Ralph Houghton.
Oct 12. Mr Seath Adams.
Nov 14. Mrs Haden, wife of Mr Moses Haden.
Dec 26. Mrs Patience Horton wife of Mr Benjamin Horton. 69.

1783. Jan 19th. Ruth Horton daughter of Mr John Horton.
" 25. Mr Ebenezer Houghton aged 86 years.

Feb 18. Mr Ebenezer French aged 71 years.
March 6. Mrs Abigail Crehore wife of the late Mr Isaiah Crehore aged
83 years.
" 13. Lemuel Vose aged 20 years.

April. Mrs Rebecca Guliver Relix of the late Mr Stephen Guliver.
May 8. A son of William Bugbee.
July 2. Mr George Badcock aged 56 years.
" 4. Edward Rogers Vose son to Mr William Vose aged 3 years.
" 10. A son of Mrs Simmons.
" 21. Mr Galaspe.

" 24. Ebenezer Vose son of Mr William Vose.
Aug 12. William Tucker son of Mr Ebenezer Tucker.
Sept 6. Lemuel Vose son of Mr Jesse Vose.
i '* 16. Mr Edward Jones aged 43 years.
' Oct 24. Miss Ruth Crane daughter of Mr Seth Crane.
Nov. 26. Enoch Davenport son of Mr. William Davenport aged 15
months.

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July

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Sept

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Nov

28.

Dec 19.

May 9.
June 30.

July 8.

Aug 7.

" 8.

Oct 10.

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Nov 5.

" 10.

" 11.

Dec 5.

" 6.

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Dec 26. Mrs Mary Tucker wife of Deacon Ebenczer Tucker.
u 27. Mr Thomas Burgil Capernaum.
" 28. Mr Isaac Billings (80).

1784. Jan 16. Mr Asa Dammon.
Feb 12. Mrs Abigail Wads worth.
March 2. Mr Stephen Davenport aged 80 years.

" 19th. Mrs Mary Rawson, consort of Mr David Rawson Esq.
April. A child of John Marshall's.
♦« " . " " Isaac Daniels.

" 22. Mrs Judith Swift consort of Mr Ebenezer Swift aged 55
years.
Mrs Sables consort of Mr John Sables.
Negro woman of Mr Robert Williams.
Mrs Elizabeth Sumner aged 48 years the consort of Col.

Seth Sumner.
Mr Thomas Smith of Dorchester.
Mr Elisha Thacher Fenno aged 22 years.
Mr Crosby of Boston.

Waitstill Glover. Consort of the late Mr Antony Glover
Mrs Lyon, consort of Mr Benjamin Lyon.

1785. Feb 5. A child of Mr Joseph Fenno.

Feb 6. Mrs Deborah Smith, consort of the late Mr Thomas Smith.

" 27. Mr Moses Iladen 84 years.
March 1 0. A child of Mr Hosea Whiteing.

April 29. Miss Elizabeth Henshaw, daughter of the late Mr Samuel
Henshaw.
Mrs Judith Crane, consort of Mr Henry Crane Jr.
Mrs Whiteing consort of Mr Hosea AYhitein^.
Mrs Bugbe, consort of Mr Wm Bugbe.
Esther Crane daughter of Mr David Crane, 18 mo.
Miss Mary Crehore aged 26 years the daughter of Mr John

Crehore.
Joseph Gould aged 10 years, son of Mr William Gould.
Mrs Miriam Vose aged 56 years, consort of the late Mr Robert

Vose.
. A child of Mr Samuel Hunts.

Joseph Daniel aged 21 son of the late Mr Vevian Daniel.
Mr William Crane aged 41 years.

Lucv Tucker aged 8 years daughter of Mr Amariah Tucker.
Mr William Haughton [HortonJ.

Mrs Lydia Crehore aged 26 years consort of Mr William Bowen
Crehore.
" 19th. Mrs Miriam Billings aged 55 years consort of the late Mr.

Ebenezer Billings.
" 21st. Mrs Mary Clap, consort of the late Mr Stephen Clap.
1786. Jan. 22d. Mrs Roach wife of Capt Roach.
" Miss Peggy Griffin.

Feb 15. Mr Samuel Sumner.
" " Mr Ebenezer Bent.
July. A child of Mr Wild's.
July 20. Mr Brown at Mr
Aug 31. Miss Lydia Robbins aged 27.
Sept 9. A child of Mr Lemuel Capens

1890.] Deaths in Milton, Mass, 49

Nov. A child of Mr Joshua Kingsbury.

1787. March 2. Mrs Mehitable Crehore widow of the late John Crehore

aged 93 [83].
March 20. A child of Mr Joshua Briggs.
i " Ann Hunt daughter of Miss Ann Hunt aged 17.

" 23d. A child of Mr llezakiah Reed Miller.
April. Mr. Robert Williams.

May 5. Mr. Thomas Crane Jr of Stoughton son of Thomas Crane Esq
of Milton.
u 10. Mrs Esther Pierce wife of Mr Charles Pierce aged 22.
" 11. A child of Mr Seth Bassetts.
July 3. The widow Elizabeth Ingraham.

" 29. Mr Jonathan Field.
Aug. 3. Mr. Benjamin llorton 74.
" 3. Mrs Hunt wife of Mr Brimsment Hunt.
" 3. Mrs Clark widow of the late Mr Richard Clark.
" 15. Miss Judith Clap.
Sept 14. Ambrose Davenport son of Adam Davenport, aged 3 years.
Sept 20. Mrs^Bois widow of the late Mr David Bois aged 91. u
Dec 21. Mr Francfs Loud.

22. Mrs Mehitable Pierce wife of Mr. Lancelot Peiree aged G3.

1788. Jan 11th. A child of Dr Barkers.

" 17. Mr. Randall aged G9 years.
Feb 8. Mr Stephen Clap aged 35 years.

March 14. Mrs Submit Henshaw, widow of the late Mr S amuel Henshaw
April 19. Mr. Joseph Shepherd.
I May 4. Lemuel Ford son of Mr James Ford.

August. A child of Capt David Tucker.
I Aug 17. " " " Mr Lemuel Davis.

Sept. Mr Ebenezer Clap.
Sept 17. Mr. Joshua Glover aged 51 years.
Oct 2d. Mr. Ebenezer Yose aged 51 years.

" 5th. Mrs Bathsheba Blake wife of Ziba, 51 years.

" 8. Miss Eunice Peice aged 18 years.
Nov 12. Mrs. Blake consort of Mr. Joseph Blake.

" 24. Jamaca, A negro man of Miss Foye's.
Dec 5. Miss Sarah Hutchinson.

" 17. Mr Nathan Ford.

" 17. Miss Lydia Clap.

1789. Feb 2. Miss Sallv Williams, daughter of Col. E. Williams aged 21.
" 16th. Col William Taylor aged 74.
" 17. Mrs Patience Holbrook wife of Dr Holbrook aged 25.

May 1. Mr Ridge way.

" 16. Mr. Moses Babcock.

" 22. Mr Joseph Tucker aged 63 years.
Oct 7. Eunice Rawson daughter of Mr D. Rawson 3 years.

" loITir^ Hannah Rawson daughter of Mr Dier Rawson, 1 year.
Nov. 7. Mr. Moses Glover aged 59 years 8 months.

" 11th. Mr David Sumner aged 73.

" 14th. Mr Ebenezer Horton aged 74.

1790. Jan 1. Miss Abigail Leeds aired 21.
March 2. Mr Benjamin Hatch aged 20.
April 4. Mr Ebenezer Fenno aged 46.

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April 13. Mrs Mehitable Calf.
" Mr. Lemuel Trot.

Mr Jeremiah Smith.
Mr Jonathan Vose.
Mr Ebenezer Badcock.
child of Mr Simeon Jlorton's.
Miss Hannah Ilorton.

Memo.

Oct 1 1789. Died at Marshfield Mr Jeremiah Phillip.

May 17, 1790. I began the school at the west end of the town.

On outside of the old book, Polly Bent Jan 1, 1784.

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AXTELLS OF AMERICA.

By William S. Appleton, A.M., of Boston, Mass.

THE connection with this country of the name and family of
Axtell is decidedly interesting. Several years ago I com-
municated to the Register, XXII. 14o, Notes on the Axtell
family, giving a short account of Thomas Axtell of Sudbury and his
descendants, of whom his grandson, Daniel, moved for a time to
South Carolina. Unfortunately Thomas of Sudbury did not put
himself so fully on record as two others of the name, whose wills
are found at London. Mr. Savage says in the Genealogical Diction-
ary of New England, under Axtell, "Nathaniel, New Haven
1639, intend, to go home, made his will 27 Jan. 1640, and d. in
few wks. bef. embark, at Boston." Mention of such will is also
found in the Records of the Colony of New Haven, but the following
will of earlier date was left in England, and there proved and
recorded, as follows :

In the name of God Amen. The Seaveuteenth day of August One
Thousand Six Hundred Thirtie nyne And in the tiifteeuth yeare ofy e Raigue
of our Soueraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England
Scotland Fraunce and Ireland, Defender of the faith &c. I Nathaniell Axtell
now or late of the parish of S l Peters nere the liurrough of S r Albons in
the County of Hertford Yeoman, being now purposed (by the Grace of
God) to travayle to New England in the parts beyond the Seas and con-
sidering the certainty of Death & how uucertaine the tyme thereof is,
Doe (Revoaking all former Willes Testamentes legacies & Devises by me
heretofore made) make & declare this my present last Will & Testament
in manner & forme followinge that is to say, Hirst & principally I comend
my Soule into the hands of AUmightie God my Creator & of Jesus Christ
my only Saviour & Redeemer hopeiuge & stedfastly beleiving through the
meritts Death and Passion of my said Saviour Jesus Christ to have free
j)don and forgivenesse of all my sinnes & to inheritt Eternall life in the
Kinffdome of Heaven with other the Elect Children of God. And for

1890.] Axtells of America. 51

such temporal! goods as it hath pleased god to lend me in this world for
my accessary use (my debtes and funerall expences beinge first paid &
discharged) I give & dispose the same as followeth (viz*.) lunn I mve &
bequeath unto Thomas Buckinham of Queen Epioth [Quinnipiac] in New
England, Husbandman, Tenn poundes in money to be paid unto him by my
Executor hereafter named within one yeare next after my decease. Item I
give & bequeath unto Richard Miles of the same place Husbandman all my
weareingeapparellboth linnen & wollen And all my beddinge & Household

§ stuffe whatsoever in New England aforesaid. Item I give & bequeath unto

M r Peter Prudden Minister of the word of God in New England aforesaid
ffive poundes in money to be paid unto him by my Executor within one
yeare next after my decease. The Remainder rest & residue of all &
singuler my goodes chattelles Debtes & estate whatsoever unbequeathed I
• doe give & bequeath unto & amongest my Two brothers Thomas Axtell &

I Daniell Axtell & my three sisters Joane, Ann & Sarah equally amongest

them to be parted & devided part & part like And I doe ordaine and make
my said Brother Daniell Axtell the sole & onely Executor of this my last
Will & Testament Willing & chargeinge hime to see the same truely ^formed
accordinge to my true intent & plaine meaneinge therein expressed, as my
only & especiall trust is in him. In Wittnes whereof I the said Nathaniel
Axtell to this my last Will & Testament have sett my hand & seale the
Seaventeenth Day of August 1 039 And in the ffifteentli yeare of the Raigne
of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles of England &c.

1 Natiianiell Axtell.

Read signed sealed published & delivered by the said Nathaniell Axtell
for & as his last Will & Testament the Day of the Date in the presence of
me Antho : Hudson Scr r . And mo Natha: Hudson his sonne.

Proved at London 12 June 1640.

The second will is as follows :

Considering the brevity and uncertainty of the life of Man how many
accidents perills and dangers it lyes lyable to especially in Journeys by
Land and hazards by sea both which I intend God willing in very few
dayes to undertake doe judge it absolutely necessary to make this my last
Will audTestani' this third day of August one thousand .six hundred seaventy
eight which is as viz 1 . Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my eldest
daughter Sibilla the slime of ffive Hundred pounds to h^ paid her at day of
marryage or when shee shall attain e to the age oi twenty one yeare's. Item
I give unto my son Daniel the suine of ffive Hundred pounds to be paid
to him at the age of twenty and one yeares. Item I give and bequeath
uuto my Daughter Mary ffive Hundred pounds to be paid her at day of
marryage or when shee shall attaine the age of twenty one yeares. Item
I give unto my sonne Holland ffive Hundred pounds to be paid him when
hee shall attaine to the age of twenty one yeares. Item I give unto my
daughter Rebeckah five hundred pounds to be paid her at day of marryage
or when shee shall attaine to the age of twenty one yeares. Item 1 give
unto my daughter Elizabeth and my Daughter Anne each of them Hive
hundred pounds to be paid to them as either of them is marryed or shall
attaine to the age of twenty one yeares. Item I make my dearly beloved
and faithfull wife Rebeckah my full and whole Executrix of this my last
Will and Testament giveing and bequeathing to her all the remainder of
my estate just and lawfull debts being first paid and discharged an account

52 Axtells of America, [J

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of which for brevity sake I have left in writeing and inclosed herein. And
that whereas merchandizeing and other Comerce in the world is lyable to
sundry casualties losse and damages by which meanes the estate that I now
doc through the good hand and signall providence and blessing of God
account my selfe to have, may very much fall short soe the getting of it in
from my severall ffactors and Correspondents in severall places of this
World soe that whereas my great and earnest desire and intention to give

I and bequeath my intirely beloved Wife such a part and proportion of my

estate as through the goodnesse of God to her shee may live happily freely
and plentifull the remainder of her life, may be very much diminished and
lessened soe that the care and tendernesse I have for her future comfort
may be frustrated and disappointed My will therefore is that if in the
gathering in of my estate from abroad and debts at home it should happen soe
to fall short that the porcons above menconed being paid to my children my -
deare wife should not have the sume of Two Thousand pounds for her
selfe for her owne maintenance over and above all household goods plate
and Jewells I am now at this time seized and possest of, That then how
much soever shee fall short of the said two Thousand pounds there shall
be a proporconable deduction and abatement out of every one of my chil-
drens porcons for the makeing up of the said Two Thousand pounds for the
support and maintenance of my said deare Wife Itebeckah. And that if
any of my children should dye either before marryage or age of one and
twenty yeares that then any of them soe deceaseing their porcon or poreons
shall be equally divided amongst the survivors- Lastly my faithfull friend
Henry Danvers Esq r . and M r . W m . Pennington are hereby desired and
appointed to be helpfull and assisting to my dearest wife in the gathering
in of my estate from abroad and to be adviseing and helping her in the
secure disposeing of it w T hen at home. In wituesse whereof I have here-
unto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare above written. Note that
the seeming alteraeon of iiigure in the inve Hundred pounds to my Daugh-
ter Sibilla was done before signeing. Dan. Axtell.

Signed sealed and declared to be the last Will and Testament of Daniel
Axtell in the presence of Anne Cooper, Mary Catchpoull, Sarah Hill.

Proved at London 2 July 1680, when a commission was issued to Walter
Keedham M.D. Attorney lawfully appointed " per Rebeccam Axtell (jam
» apud Carolinam habitam)" Widow and Executrix of Daniel Axtell "nuper

de Stoke Newington in Com. Midcts sed apud Carolinam defti " to ad-
minister the estate in the absence of the said Executrix.

Rebecca, widow of this Daniel Axtell, was of course the "Lady
Axtel" of Charleston, S. C, 1695, mentioned in the journal of
William Pratt, Kcgister, XXVIII. 4GS. If we could be sure
that the brothers Thomas and Daniel, named in the will of Nathaniel
Axtell, were the two other settlers of the name, we should have
here a genuine instance of the oft-repeated story of the three brothers,
one in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut and one in South Carolina.
I do not know that proof of this is likely ever to be found. Even
without it, the whole is a curious chapter of family history.

1890.] Thomas Cooper and his Descendants, 53

THOMAS COOPER, OF BOSTON, AND HIS
DESCENDANTS,*

By Frederick Tuckerman, of Amherst, Mass.

F the early history of Captain Thomas Cooper very little is positively
known by the present writer. There is some ground for the belief
that he was descended from the Coopers of co. Gloucester, England, although
family tradition would assign him to the Coopers of Somersetshire. His
father's christian name and the date of his own birth are alike unknown.
That his mother's name was Mary, however, is certain beyond a doubt, from
the evidence contained in an old Bible in the possession of the family. He
was born in England, probably in London, about 1660. ' In 1075 he was
sent to Boston, New England, by Richard Gawthorne, of London, to whom
he had been apprenticed, to learn business of James Lloyd, merchant. In
December, 1679, at his own request, he was relieved from serving the re-
mainder of his apprenticeship.

On the 6 March, 1678, he was a passenger in the " Pink Blessing," bound
| to New York.

In 1680 he acted as attorney and agent for Mr. A. M. Daniel, who had
returned to England, and sold for him his farm at Billerica.

His name appears in the tax list for 1681, and some twelve years later
he had become one of the largest tax-payers in Boston.

In June, 1689, he signed a petition with Peter Sergeant and others to
have the " Rose " frigate restored to her commander, Captain George.

On the 21 April, 1690, he set out for New York in company with
William Stoughton and Samuel Sewall.

On the 5 April, 1692, he paid £100 to Mary Lawrence and George
Munjoy, mariner, for a tract of land, a mile square, situated at Amancongan
River on the north side of Casco Bay, Province of Maine.

In May, 1 693, he and John Pool became security to the town for Nicolas
Stoughton and his family.

Judge Sewall makes the following entry in his Diary, 4 Dec. 1694:
" Lieut. Governour [Stoughton] invites, and we go to Mr. Cooper's, where a
Splendid Treat is provided, most cold meat. Councillors, Ministers,
Justices there, and Col. Shrimpton. Mr. E m Hutchinson, etc. Mr. Increase
Mather crav'd a Blessing; Mr. Willard returned Thanks."

He was one of the projectors and founders of Brattle Street Church,
Boston (by the Mathers stigmatized as the "Manifesto" Church), and, on
the 10 Jan. 1698, he and John Colman granted the land for the church.
On the 10 May, 1699, the Rev. Benjamin Colman was invited by the un-
dertakers to become the minister of the new church, the letter being signed
by Thomas Brattle, Benjamin Davis, John Mico, Thomas Cooper and John
Colman. On the 8 December following, Thomas Cooper was admitted a
member of Brattle Street Church.

On the 25 Jan. 1700, Samuel Sewall writes in his Diary as follows:
"Mr. I. Mather, Mr. C. Mather, Mr. Willard, Mr. Wadsworth, and S. S.
wait on the U Gov r at Mr. Coopers : to confer about the writing drawn up

* I am trreatlv indebted to Miss Emma E. Newman, of Atchison, Kan., Mrs. H. E.
Taylor, of Worcester, Mass., and the Rev. Winslow W. Sever, of Central Falls, R. I., each
of whom has given me very substantial aid in the preparation of this genealogy.

54 Thomas Cooper and his Descendants. [Jan.

the evening before. Was some heat; but grew calmer, and after Lecture
agreed to be present at the Fast which is to he observed Jan y 31."

On the 20 March, 1703, Mr. Chauncy, Mr. Cooper, John Pitts, John
Bowdoin, John Colman, and others, petition the Governor [Joseph Dudley]
for a bankruptcy law.

Thomas Cooper had the military title of Captain, and was probably an
officer in one of the Suffolk regiments. Pie lived on Sudbury Street. He
was one of the executors of Lieut. Governor Stoughton, and. through his
marriage with Stoughton's niece, inherited all of his real estate in Boston,
although he did not long survive the acquisition of his large landed
property. This included the famous Green Dragon Tavern and the Blue
Ball estate. The Green Dragon Tavern estate was valued in 1705 at
£650. It remained in the possession of the family until August,' 1743,
when it was sold by Rev. William Cooper to Dr. William Douglass.

Thomas Cooper died at sea, while on his way to London, in 1705. His
will (No. 2934), dated 11 Jan. 1704-5, was probated 6 Aug. 1705. lie
left a handsome property for those days, his estate being appraised at
£8552 2s. 6|d.

He married in Boston, 6 March, 1683, Mehitable, daughter of James
and Hannah (Stoughton) Minot, of Dorchester. James Minot was the
second son of George Minot, of Saffron-Walden, co. Essex, Eng., and was
born there 31 Dec. 1628. His wife Hannah was a daughter of Israel
Stoughton, and sister of Lieut. Gov. William Stoughton, and was born in ,

England in 1628. Mehitable Minot was born at Dorchester, 17 Sept. /

1668, and died in Boston, 23 Sept. 1738. She was thrice married, but was
without issue by her last two husbands. Her second husband was Hon.
Peter Sergeant, to whom she was married 19 Dec. 1706, and who left her
at his death on the 8 Feb. 1714, his famous mansion, afterwards known as
the Province House. She married thirdly, 12 May, 1715, Hon. Simeon
Stoddard, who died 15 Oct. 1730. She and Lieut. Governor Tailer were
own cousins. She was admitted to. the Old South Church 28 March, 1097,
but on the 4 Feb. 1700, became a communicant of Brattle Street Church.
On the 25 Jan. 1711-12, she sold to Josiah Franklin (the father of Benja-
min) for £320, in good current bills of credit, the Blue Ball estate. On
the 12 April, 1716, she sold her mansion house for £2300 to the State
for a Province house. The children of Thomas and Mehitable (Minot)
Cooper were :

i. Thomas, 2 b. in Boston. 27 June, 1688 ; bapt. 5 July, 1688 : d. in Boston,
13 Aug. 1638.

2. ii. William, b. in Boston, 20 March, 1094: bapt. 25 March, 1694.
iii. Mary, b. in Boston, 20 May, 1696; bapt. 21 May, 1096; d. in Boston.

7 June, 1696.

iv. Hannah, b. in Boston, 4 Sept. 1699; bant. 10 Sept. 1699; m. (1) in
Boston, 21 May, 1722, Henry, son of Henry and Sarah Francklyn,
merchant, Mho was b. 21 June, 1692, and d. 13 July, 1725; m. "(2)
5 Nov. 1729, Capt. Bartholomew Chocver, merchant, who was b. 2
Dec. 1684, and d. 17 April, 1772. Hannah was admitted to Brattle
Street Church, 2 Aug. 1719, and d. without issue, 13 July. 1732.

v. Mehitable, b. in Boston, 24 Aug. 1701; bapt. 29 Aug. 1701; d. in
Boston, 1 Sept. 1701.

3. vi. Thomas, b. in Boston, 20 Aug. 1705; bapt. 26 Aug. 1705.

2. William 3 Cooper {Thomas 1 ), clergyman, was horn in Boston, 20
March, 1G9-4. Member of the Boston Latin School, 1701-1708;
admitted to Brattle Street Church, 3 June, 1711; was graduated at

1890.] Thomas Cooper and, his Descendants. 55

Harvard College in 1712; elected junior pastor of Brattle Street
Church, 16 Aug. 1715, and ordained 23 May, 1710. He was
moderator of the Council called to ordain the Rev. Robert Breck,
which met at Springfield 7 Oct. 1735. On the 20 May, J 737, he
was chosen President of Harvard College, but declined the honor.
In 1742 he became involved with Rev. Jonathan Ashley, of Deer-
field, in a controversy respecting the revival. He was an active
member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among
the Aborigines of America. He published over fifty sermons and
discourses. He lived first on Sudbury Street, and afterwards at
Cotton Hill. Through his wife, Judith Sewall, he inherited the
Cotton-Hull-Sewall homestead, and a short time after his death the
estate was leased to William Vassall. In Sept. 17o8, the Cooper
heirs sold it to Vassall for £1250. He died in Boston, 13 Dec.
1743. He married first, 12 May, 1720, Judith, youngest daughter
of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall. Her mother was Hannah Hull,
only daughter of Captain John and Judith (Quincy) Hull, of Boston.
Judith, wife of William, was born in Boston, 2 Jan. 1701-2, and
died there, 23 Dec. 1740. She was admitted to Brattle Street
Church, 1 Nov. 1724. Children, born in Boston, were:

4. i. William, 3 b. 1 Oct. 1721; bapt. 8 Oct. 1721.
ii. Meiiitable, b. 28 June, 1723; bapt. 30 June, 1723; cl. in Boston, 15

Sept. 1724.

5. iii. Samuel, b. 28 March, 1725; bapt. 4 April, 1725.
iv. Thomas, b. 21 Jan. 1723; bapt. 28 Jan. 1728; living in April, 1705.
v. Hannah, b. 23 Jan. 1729 ; bapt. 2 Feb. 1729 ; d. in Boston, 6 June, 1729.
vi. Judith, b. 9 June, 1730; bapt. 14 June, 1730; d. at Kingston, Mass.,

16 Feb. 17G4; m. (I) in Boston, 13 Dec. 1753, Dr. John Sever (Har-
vard 1749), of Kingston, Mass., physician, who was b. 22 Feb.
1731, and cl. 2G Dec. 1760. They had one child, Judith* b. in
January, 1755; d. 7 April, 1759. Judith married (2) 10 Sept. 1761,
William, son of llev. William Band (Harvard 1721), of Kingston,
who was b. 25 Oct. 1733, and d. 10 March. 1769. Of their children,
Lucy,* b. in 17G2, was living in 1779; and William, who was bapt.
22 Jan. 17G4, and d. at Kingston, 4 Jan. 182s, was married and
probably left descendants.
vii. Hannah, bapt. 3 Dec. 1732 ; cl. in Boston, 21 Dec. 1732.

William Cooper married second, 8 Nov. 1742, Mary, daughter
of William and Elizabeth (Campbell) Foye, of Boston. Hon.
William Foye was Treasurer of the Province, 173G-1759. Mary
was born in Boston, 8 Sept. 1721, and died there in August, 1773?
She was admitted to Brattle Street Church, G March, 1743. Child:
viii. Mahy, bapt. 4 March, 1714; d. in Boston, 23 Juno, 177s ; m. 22 May,
176G, Dr. Samuel Gardner (Harvard 1746), of Milton, Mass.. physi-
cian, who w T as b. at Stow, Ma.ss., G March, 1 72.5, and d. in Boston,
18 Jan. 1779. Their children, born at Milton, were: 1. William
Foye* b. 20 Jan. 17G7 ; d. 25 March, 17G7. 2. Elizabeth, b. 8 April,
1768. 3. Mary, b. 1 May, 1769; cl. unm. at Dorchester, G Dec.
1855. 4. John, b. 24 Sept. 1770; m. Sally Jackson, of Newbury-
port; d. 12 Dec. 1825. 5. Sarah, b. 11 Sept. 1772; m. John Ainory,
of Boston, 4 June, 1794, and had issue. G. William Cooper, b. 25
Jan. 1775; d. at Milton, 2o Feb. 1775.

3. Thomas 2 Cooper (Thomas 1 ), merchant, was born in Boston, 20 Aug.
1705. In early manhood he settled at Charleston, South Carolina.
He was instrumental in suppressing the insurrection among the
negroes in South Carolina in 1739. He married Elizabeth Haven,
of South Carolina, and was living at Charleston in 1744. Children:

56 Thomas Cooper and his Descendants. [Jan.

i. BlUTTON. 3

ii. Elizabeth, m. Elias Vanderhorst, of South Carolina. He was ap-
pointed American Consul at Bristol, Eng., i May, 1702, and resigned
in the autumn of 1815.

4. William 8 Cooper ( William, 2 Thomas 1 ), Revolutionary patriot, was
born in Boston, 1 Oct. 1721. Member of the Boston Latin
School, 1727. He was for a time a merchant. lie made a
journey to Savannah, Ga., 1741-1742. He was a clerk of the
market, 1746-1747, and one of the auditors of the Town Treas-
urer's accounts in 174G, 1750-1754, and again, 1750-1757. He
represented Boston in the General Court, 1755-1 750. lie was a
fire-warden, 1755-1790; was Register of Probate for Suffolk County,
1759-1799, and was Town Clerk of Boston, 1701-1809. He was
an active member of the Political Club formed in 1705, began his
"Journal of Occurrences" in the Boston Gazette, 1708, and was
one of the "Sons of Liberty" who dined at Liberty Tree, Dor-
chester, 14 Aug. 1709. He was a member and clerk of the Com-
mittee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, 1772-1770. He
was a Representative to the General Court, 1774-1775 and 1770-
1777. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Suffolk. He was very active in town affairs, served on man}'-
important committees during the Revolutionary period, and was a
frequent writer in the journals of the day. He lived east of Concert
Hall on Hanover Street. He died in Boston, 28 Nov. 1809. He
married, 25 April, 1745, Katharine, daughter of Hon. Jacob Wen-
dell, who was a merchant, councillor, and colonel of the Boston
Regiment. Her mother was Sarah Oliver, daughter of Dr. James
and Mercy (Bradstreet) Oliver, of Cambridge. Katharine was born
in Boston, 18 June, 1726, and died there, 29 Jan. 1796. Children,
born in Boston, were :

i. William, 4 b. 11 Feb. 1746; bapt. 17 Feb. 1716; d. in Boston in Oct.
1748.

ii. Katharine, b. 17 Oct. 1747; bapt. 18 Oct. 1747; d. young.

iii. Sarah, b. 15 Dec. 1748; bapt. 18 Dec. 1748; d. in Boston, 21 April,
1770.

iv. William* b. in Feb. 1750; member of the Boston Latin School, 1758-
65; apprenticed to Capt. Tracy, of Newbury, 14 May, 1766: ap-
pointed clerk to Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Provincial
Congress, 11 May, 1775; settled at Soward's Neck. Me., in 17-0;
drowned in Pas.samaqup.duy Bay. 7 Feb. 17*8.

v. Jacob, b. in March, 1751 ; member of the Boston Latin School, 175s-
65; d. in Boston in Nov. 1789.

vi. Judith, b. 10 Nov. 1752; bapt. 12 Nov. 1752: d. voung.

vii. Judith, b. 11 Aug. 1751: d. In Boston, 14 Sept. 1782; m. 9 Aug:. 1781,
Captain Matthew Parke (b. in England, 1740, d. in Boston, 28 Dec.
1813), of Boston, merchant. He was captain of marines on the
frigate "Alliance " during the Revolutionary war. Their only child,
William Cooper,* shipping merchant, was b. in Boston, 7 Aug. 1782,
and d. there 11 Nov. 1857. Tie m. in Boston, 5 Nov. 1816. Susan,
dau. of John and Susannah (Dolbeare) Wilde, who was b. 16 March,
1785, and d. 6 Jan. 1867. Children: 1. Jane Susan, 6 b. at South
Berwick, Me., 1 July, 1818; d. at Portsmouth, N. II., 10 Sept. 1818.
2. Susan Jane, b. at South Berwick, 1 July, 1818; d. at Ports-
mouth, 16 Sept. 1818. 3. Jane Susan, b. at Portsmouth, 11 May,
1820; d. in Boston, 27 Sept. 1839. 4. William Cooper, b. at Ports-
mouth, 21 Sept. 1821 ; d. at Honolulu, II. I., 29 May, 1889. The last
named went to Hawaii in 1813, and for thirty-four years was mar-

1890.1 Thomas Cooper and, his Descendants. 57

shal of the Kingdom. He m. at Honolulu, 15 Jan. 1856, Annie,
dau. of Hon. Luther Severance, of Augusta, Me. She was b. 12
April, 1831. Children, b. at Honolulu, were: Jane Severance, 7
b. 20 Aug. 1857; Annie Hamlin, b. 31 Oct. 1858: Berniee Bishop,
b. 28 Dec. 1850; Susan Wilde, b. 17 Aug. 18G3, d. 10 Jan. 18C4;
William Cooper, b. 19 Sept. 1805. 5. Mary Houghton, b. at Ports-
mouth, 14 Jan. 1823; d. unm. at Honolulu, 22 June, 1879.

viii. Samuel, b. 19 Aug. 1755; bapt. 24 Aug. 1755; d. young.

ix. Elizabeth, b. 28 March, 1757; bapt. 3 April, 1757; d. yottng.

6. x. Samuel, b. 2 Jan. 1750; bapt. 21 Jan. 1750.
xi. JOHN, b. 13 Feb. 1700; bapt. 17 Feb. 1700; d. young.

7. xii. Richard Wibibd, b. 27 Oct. 1701 ; bapt. 1 Nov. 1701.
xiii. Katharine, b. 17 Sept. 1702; bapt. 19 .Sept. 1702; d. young.
xiv. A still-born child, b. in 1703.
xv. A still-born child, b. in 1764.

8. xvi. John, b. 13 Dec. 1705; bapt. 15 Dec. 1705.
xvii. Katharine, bapt. 24 July, 1708 ; d. young.

5. Samuel* Cooper ( William, 2 Thomas 1 ), clergyman and patriot, was
born in Boston, 28 March, 1725. Member of the Boston Latin
School, 1732-1739; admitted to Brattle Street Church, G Sept.
1741; was graduated at Harvard College in 1743; elected a col-
league with the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Colman of Brattle Street
| Church, 31 Dec. 1744, and ordained 21 May, 174G. lie received

the degree of M.A. from Yale in 1750, and that of S.T.D. from

I Edinburgh in 17G7. In 1754 he published "The Crisis," a pam-

phlet in opposition to the excise act, then in contemplation. He
was a Fellow of Harvard College, 1707-1783, and was elected

1 President of the same, but declined to serve, 10 Feb. 1774. He

received from Franklin the confidential letters of Gov. Hutchinson
in 1772; was chaplain to the General Court, 1770-1780. He was
one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and was its first vice-president, 1780-1783. He published some
fifteen sermons, and contributed many political papers to the jour-
nals of the day. He lived on Court Street. He died in Boston,
29 Dec. 1783. He married, 11 Sept. 174G, Judith, daughter of
Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, of Boston. Her mother was Judith Colman,
daughter of John Colman, a Boston merchant. Judith, wife of
Samuel, was baptized 28 March, 1725, and died in Boston in Novem-
ber, 1705. She was admitted to Brattle Street Church, 3 May,

\ 1741. Children, born in Boston, were:

i. Judith, 4 bapt. 2 Aug. 1717; visited France in 1703; d. in Boston, 11
Dec. 1773; m. 18 Dec. 1700, Gabriel Johonnot, merchant, who was
b. in 1748, and cl. at Hampden, Me., 9 Oct. 1820. He was Lieut.
Colonel of the 14th Regiment, Continental Army. Children, born in
Boston, were: 1. Samuel Cooper,* bapt. 13 March. 1708; attended
school at Passy, France; grad. at Harvard College, 1783; law
student in the office of Hon. James Sullivan in 1784, and later
was au attorney at Portland, Me. ; he went to Demerara, where he
d. in 180G, leaving issue? 2. Zachary, bapt. 12 Feb. 17G9; d. in
1800.

ii. Abigail, b. in 1755; d. at Roxbury, Mass., G Oct. 182G: m. in January,
1777 (published in Boston, 2 Jan. 1777), Joseph Saver Hixon, of
England. His father was Thomas S. Hixon, gentleman keeper of
His Majesty's wardrobe in the palace of Greenwich. Joseph Hixon,
shortly after his marriage, was sent officially to Montserrat. and.
during an insurrection there, was taken prisoner and carried to
Copenhagen, where he was detained several years. He returned to
Boston in 1782, and d. there, 15 Feb. 1801. Children, born in Bos-

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[Jan.

9.
10.

ton, were : 1. Samnrt Cooper,* b. 13 July, 17K1 ; bapt. 25 July, 178-1 ■
eutered the U. S. Navy, and was commissioned Master 30 April'
1814. Hem. in 1810, at Edinburgh, Scotland, Henrietta Burnett
Watts, and d. at Charlestown, Mass., 9 Sept. 1840. Children : Julia
Cooper, 6 b. 4 April, 1812, d. num. 15 April, 1883; Mary, b. in 1813
m. John Lowitz, and d. in 1851; Joseph, b. in 1814, in. Agnes Gil'
more, and d. in 1844; John, b. in 1S1G, m. Anna Radcliffe, and <:.
in 1838; Samuel, b. in 1818, mini. ; Henrietta, 1). 8 June, 1820, m.
Frederick Renter ; Anna, b. in 1822, d. unm. in 1875; James, b. it
1824, in. Katellolden; Jessie, b. in 182G, m. Richard Jackson, and
d. in 1874. 2. Joseph Sayer, b. 5 Feb. 1793; d. while a Sophomore
at Harvard College, 4 July, 1810. 3. Julia, m. Nathaniel li. Fellows,
and d. at sea in October, 1823.

Samuel 4 CoorER ( William* William, 2 Thomas 1 ), lawyer, was born in
Boston, 2 Jan. 1750. Member of the Boston Latin School, 17 GO.
He was clerk of the Senate, 1785-1705 ; a Notary Public for
Suffolk County, 1789-1806, and a Special Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas for Suffolk, 1709-1800. His office was at 07 State
Street, and he lived in Oliver's Lane. He died in Boston, 13 March,
1809. He married, 8 Dec. 1785, Margaret, daughter of William
and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, of Boston, who was born 25
May, 1762, and died at Andover, Mass., 19 Feb. 1844. She was
his first cousin. Her brother, Hon. John Phillips, was the first
Mayor of Boston. Children, born in Boston, were :

Katharine Wendell, 5 bapt. 12 July, 1789; d. young.
i. Katharine Wendell, bapt. 30 May, 1700; d. young.
ii. William Phillips, bapt. 27 Nov. 1701 ; d. young,
iv. William Phillips, b. 29 May, 1705; bapt. 31 May, 1705.
v. Samuel Thatcher, b. 10 May, 1700; bapt. 10 May, 1700.
vi. George, bapt. 5 April, 1801 ; entered the U. S. Marine Corps, and was
commissioned 2d Lieutenant 28 March, 1820; d. unm. at Charles-
town, Mass., 25 Sept. 1823.

7. Richard Wibird 4 Cooper (William? William, 2 Thomas 1 ), gentle-
man, was born in Boston, 27 Oct. 1761. Member of the Boston
Latin School, 1770. He lived on Fleet Street. He left Boston
about 1796, and died at New York in the autumn of 1810. He
married at Petersburg, Va., 17 Dec. 1787, Priscilla, daughter of
Captain Alexander English, of Boston. She was admitted to Brat-
tle Street Church, 6 Feb. 1791, and died 25 March, 1808. Chil-
dren, born in Boston, were :

i. William,* b. 6 Nov. 1788; bapt. in 178S; d. at Petersburg, Va., U

Sept. 1780.
ii. Judith, b. 22 Feb. 1701; bapt. 27 Feb. 1701: d. in Boston, 23 June.

1701.
iii. William, b. 1 May, 1702; bapt. 6 May, 1702; not livinc: in 1830.
iv. Samuel, b. 13 Feb. 1704; bapt. 23 Feb. 1704; not living in 1830.
v. Elizabeth English, b. 20 March, 1706; bapt. 3 Feb. 1797; d. unm. at

Machias, Me., 20 Nov. 1874.

8. Joiin 4 Cooper ( William? William? Thomas 1 ) was born in Boston,
13 Dec. 1765. Member of the Boston Latin School, 1774-1781.
He went to So ward's Neck (now a part of Lubec), Me., with his
brother William in 1787, and in 1790 removed to Machias. He was
High Sheriff of Washington County, District of Maine, 1790-1820,
and was instrumental in quelling the insurrection on Moose Island
in 1790-1791. He was Treasurer of Washington County, 1803-

1890.] Thomas Cooper and his Descendants. 59

1809, and was Brigadier- General of the 2d Brigade, 10th Division,
Mass. Militia, 1803-1811. In 1812 he was commissioned by the
electors of Massachusetts to deliver to the President of the U. S.
Senate their votes for President and Vice-President of the United
States. In 181 G he was a delegate to the convention which met at
Brunswick to act on the separation of the District of Maine from
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was for many years a
Justice of the Peace for the County of Washington. In 1822 lie re-
moved from Machias to the town which bears his name. lie pub-
lished a topographical description of Machias and other papers. He
died at Cooper, Me., 18 Nov. 1845. He married in Boston, 23
June, 1791, Elizabeth, daughter of Habijah and Elizabeth (Tudor)
Savage. She was a lineal descendant (in the sixth generation) of
Major Thomas Savage, of Boston, and a sister of the late lion.
James Savage. Her mother was a daughter of Col. John Tudor,
and sister of Hon. William Tudor, of Boston. Elizabeth Savage
was born in Boston, 15 April, 1770, and died at Machias, Me., 13
July, 1854. Children, born at Machias, Me., were:

i. John Tudor,* b. 6 June, 1792 ; student at Phillips Academy, Andover,
180G-8; grad. at Harvard College, 1811; law student in the ollice of
Hon. James Savage, 1811-12; d. at Cambridge, 22 March, 1812.

11. ii. William, b. 3 Jan. 1794.

iii. Emma Elizabeth, b. 20 July, 1796; m. at Machias, Me., 20 Oct. 1820,
Rufus King Porter (B.A. Bowdoin 1613); d. at Portland, Me., 2G
Oct. 1827. Children, born at Machias, were: 1. Emma Jane, 6 b. 4
Sept. 1821; d. unm. at Chicago, 111., 19 July, 18G6. 2. CharUs
Wendell, b. 1 May, 1823 (Bowcloin 1843) : m. 1 Sept. 1864, Susan
Ellen Lockwood, of Batavia, 111. 3. John Cooper, b. 6 Feb. 1825;
m. 9 June, 1852, Anna McKee, of St. Louis, Mo. 4. Caroline Eliza-
beth, b. 20 Nov. 182G.

iv. Charles "Wendell, b. 17 Mav, 1798; d. unm. at Havana, Cuba, 2
June, 1825.

v. Samuel, b. 2 June, 1P00; cl. at Machias, 6 April, 1804.

12. vi. James Sullivan, b. 10 Oct. 1802.

vii. Thomas Savage, b. G July, 1805; d. at Machias. 21 July. 1805.

viii. Caroline Savage, b. 28 April, 1808 ; m. at Cooper, Me., 28 Nov. 183G,
Rev. William John Newman (Bang. Theol. Sera. 1835), of Andover,
Mass. ; d. at Andover, 3 Sept. 1871. Child : Emma Elizabeth, 6 b. at
Stratham, N. II., 8 March, 1838.

ix. Arthur Savage, b. 9 May, 1811; d. at Machias, 21 Feb. 1818.

9. William Phillips* Cooper ('Samuel* William? William. 2 Thomas 1 ),

teacher and editor, was born in Boston, 29 -May, 17;'5. N(-: - .t-d in
Illinois in early manhood, and died in Clinton Co.. 11!., 4 Dec. 1845.
He married in Illinois, 15 Aug. 18oQ, Elizabeth Ballard, who was
born 15 Jan. 1814, and died 18 Jan. lbol. Children, born in
Clinton Co., 111., were:

i. Margaret Elizabeth, « b. 21 Jan. 1832; d. in Clinton Co., 22 April,

1833.
• ii. Samuel Piiillits, b. in Dec. 1833 ; m. 22 Jan. 1858, Sarah E. Needles,

of Riehview, 111.
iii. George Phillips, b. 26 Dec. 1835 ; m. 29 Oet. 1857, Margaret A.

Carrigari.
iv. Mary J.^ Phillips, b. 10 Aug. 1838 ; m. 28 March, 1858, Thomas E.

Allen; cl. 22 March, 1681.
v. William Phillips, b. 29 June, 1842; m. (1) 24 March, 18G7, Abigail

Dinsmore, of Riehview, 111., who d. 9 Jan. 1871; and (2) 8 Aug.

1872, Mary H. Hoke, of Riehview.
vi. James Shirly Phillips, b. 5 Aug. 1815 ; d. 5 Oct. 1816.

60 Thomas Cooper and his Descendants. [Jan.

10. Samijfx Thatcher 6 Cooper (Samuel,* William? William, 1 Thomas 1 )

was bora in Boston, 10 May, 1700. lie was appointed a midship-

" man in the U. 8. Navy, 10 May, 1820, and resigned 9 May, 1821.
In 1822 he settled at Andover, Mass., where for twenty-three years
he was employed in the post office. He was a Justice of the Peace
for Essex. He died at West Newton, Mass., 8 Nov. 1872. He
married first, in 182.3, Elizabeth Ilawley, of Danville, Vt., who was
born in 170 G, and died in 1830. Children, born at Andover, Mass.,
were:

i. Samuel George,* b. 11 April, 1824; d. at Worcester, 12 Jan. 1887; m.

(1) 6 March, 1841), Maria Gates, of Lyndon, Vt., who was b. 1 May,

1823, and d. 13 April, 1853 ; and (2) 30 Sept. 1854, li. Jane Robinson,

of West Boxford, b. 14 June, 1832.
ii. William Phillips, b. 16 Sept. 182(5; m. C July, 1850, Sarah Elizabeth

Wilson, of Boston; d. at Lawrence, 15 June, 18s<j.
iii. Charles Augustus, b. 4 Feb. 1828; d. num. in July, 1855.
iv. Margaret Elizabeth, b. 23 Oct. 1830; m. 27 Sept. L855, J. Aloin

Farley ; d. 12 Jan. 1879.

He married secondly, 20 Oct. 1810, Caroline L. F. Abbott, of
Andover, who was born 7 Sept. 1S17. Child:

v. Caroline Luctnp a, b. at Andover. 10 Oct. 1842; m. 30 June, 1868,
David Marks Edgerlv (Dartmouth 1804. M.D. Univ. of N. Y.
1867). b. in New Hampshire, 11 Aug. 1839.

11. William 5 Cooper (John* William, 3 William, 2 Thomas 1 ) was born at

Machias, Me., 3 Jan. 1704. He passed the greater part of his life
on the old homestead at Cooper. He died at Dennvsville, Me., 27
Aug. 1875. He married, 8 Aug. 1826, Eliza Balch Button, of
Lubec, Me., who was born 15 Dec. 1803, and died 16 Jan. 1844.
Their children, born at Cooper, Me., were :

i. William Savage, 6 b. 25 July, 1827; m. at Sonora, Cat, 17 May, 1864,
Sarah Jane Darling.

ii. Elizabeth Dutton, b. 19 Xov. 1828 ; m. (1) 29 Oct, 1853, Hon. Luther
Stearns Gushing (LL.B. Harvard 1826). of Boston; and (2) 17
Nov. 1858, Rev.^Edward Henry Buck (Hamilton 1852), of Jewett,
N. Y. ; d. at Melrose, Mass., 24 June, 1862.

iii. Emma Porter, b. 27 Aug. 1S30; m. 8 Nov. 1850, George W. Chad-
bourne, of East/port, Me.

iv. Caroline Pearson, b. 11 Jan. 1832; d. unm. at Dennvsville, Me., 16
Dec. is 7 7.

v. Helen M umox, 1). 26 Julv, 1834; m. 8 Feb. 1864. George E. Bugbee,
of Perry. Me.

vi. Harriet Coolidge, b. 8 June, 1836; d. at Coopi-r, 9 May, 1841.

vii. John, b. 22 Nov. 1838; d. at Cooper, 24 Nov. 1838.

viii. Mary, b. 7 Sept, 1-39; m. 12 Jan. 1864, Frederick J. Gardner, of
Dennvsville, Me.

ix. Harriet Coolidoe, b. 4 Sept. 1841 ; m. 24 Get. 1867, Edward B. Kilby,
of Dennysville, Me. ; d. at Washington, D. C, 2 Aug. 1868.

12. James Sullivan 5 CoorER (John, 4 William? William? Thomas 1 ),

lawyer, was born at Machias, Me., 10 Oct. 1802. He was admitted
to the Washington County Bar as an attorney, 1 July, 1829, and
as a counsellor in July, 1831. lie was a member of the law firm of
Downes & Cooper, Calais, Me., from 1820 to 18GG. lie removed
to Amherst, Mass., in 1SGG. lie died at Amherst, 28 July, 1870.
He married first, in Boston, 28 May, 1832, Mary Elizabeth, only
daughter of William and Mary (Ingersoll) Savage, who was born in

1890.] Soldiers in King Philip's War. 61

Boston, 1 Oct. 1807, and died at Calais, Me., 7 April, 18-12. Their
children, born at Calais, Me., were :

i. Mary Ingersoll, 6 b. 3 March, 1833.

ii. William Savage, b. 2G Dec. 1837; d. at Calais, Me.. 20 Sept. 1839.

iii. Harriet Savage, b. 1G Sept. 1841 ; cl. at Calais, 1G Sept. 1812.

He married secondly, at Haverhill, Mass., 1 Oct. 1845, Abigail

J Ingersoll, only daughter of Captain John and Abigail (Ingersoll)

Girdler, who was born at Manchester, Mass., 10 May, 1817. Their
children, born at Calais, Me., were:
•

iv. Elizabeth Savage, 6 b. 21 Sept. 1846; m. at Amherst, Mass., 13 Oct.
1875, John Oilman Stanton (Amherst 1870, M.l). Wiirzburg 1873),
physician, New London, Conn.
v. James Ingersoll, b. 7 April, 1849; grad. at Amherst College 1873.
vi. Charles Wendell, b. 1G May, 1851 ; grad. at Amherst College 1873,
M.D. Harvard 1877; m. in New York, 8 Sept. 1881, Elizabeth
Savage Porter, of St. Louis, Mo.
rii. Alice Girdler, b. 15 June, 1857; m. at Amherst, Mass., 6 Sept. 1881,
Frederick Tuckerman.

SOLDIERS IN KING PHILIP'S WAR.

Communicated by the llev. George M. Bodge, A.M., of East Boston, Mass.
[Continued from vol. xliii. page 354.]

No.XXVIll.
Philip, Canonchet and their Indians.

THIS series of papers has "never claimed or aimed to be a history
of Philip's war ; it nevertheless has held as closely as possible
to a connected narrative of events, while pursuing the original pur-
pose, which was an account of the soldiers from Massachusetts
Colony engaged in the war with Philip ; the basis being the lists of
names found in the accounts of Treasurer John Hull. While there-
fore the three colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut,
each did its part faithfully and bravely, according to its ability, our
attention has naturally followed the fortunes of the Massachusetts
troops. Whenever the different colonies united in operations against
the Indians, it has been the purpose to give due credit for the
service; but having no lists of the names of the soldiers of either
Plymouth or Connecticut, the references to these have been of
necessity very meagre.

The war began within the Plymouth colony, and some of its most
important events took place there. While the two most powerful
and hostile of the tribes arrayed against the English were either
within the limits of Plymouth or Connecticut, or near their borders ;
the two great chiefs, Philip and Canonchet, were of these south-
ern tribes, the Wampanoags and Narragansets. It is therefore
vol. xliv. G*

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fitting that some mention should be made of such important events
as have not been noted in connection with the troops of Massa-
chusetts.

Most of the events of general importance which took place in the
beginning of the war, and subsequently until after the great light
with the Narragansets, have been told in their order heretofore.
The "Entertaining Narrative" of Mr. Church, published by his son,
became, during the last part of the last century, a sort of text-book
of history, for the reason that other contemporary publications like
those of Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Mather, &c, were out of print, and
copies rare. Mr. Church relates his personal adventures, makes
small account of the more important matters, and is entirely careless

and unreliable as a historian ; and Ids story unduly magnifies certain

small personal experiences, which have very slight bearing on the
course of the war, though there is no doubt that he was a very brave
and very able Indian fighter, and one of the most successful of all
who led our soldiers against the Eastern Indians in later wars. His
story deals mostly with operations carried on in Plymouth colony,
by himself and a few scouts gathered at his call. By the revival of
interest in our national and local history, the first authentic histories
and contemporary records and documents have been brought to light
and published, so that we may more clearly study the course of the
events of the war from reliable data. But most of the early writers
are so strongly prejudiced against the Indians that, unconsciously,
they weaken the authority of their accounts by their evident unfair-
ness toward their enemies.

A brief statement, from the side of the Indians, of their movements
and plans so far as can be judged by the evidence we have, may
help us to a better knowledge of the war than any of the histories
afford. All know that Metacom or Pometacom, second son of the
great chief Massasoit, whom the English named Philip, and who is
known in history as King Philip, was the recognized instigator and
leader in the great Indian war which Las always been designated by
his name.

Massasoit's eldest son W'ainsutta, called by t\w English Alexander,
succeeded to the dignity and possessions of his lather in 1001, but
lived only about a year in the enjoyment ot Ins inheritance. His wife
was Weetamoo (her name best known), who seems to have been
not only an hereditary princess, but a very able and energetic woman.
She was called the " Squaw Sachem of Pocasset," and derived that
title either from her father or an earlier husband. She claimed to
own all the country around Pocasset in her own right, and also the
disposal and rule of her tribe. Weetamoo was a personage ot'
importance and influence in the war, as after the death of Wamsutta
she returned to her people and retained her title and power amongst
them ; and it would appear that just before the breaking out of the
war she had some three hundred fighting men under her authority.

1800.] Soldiers in King Philip's War. 63

There is good evidence that Queen Weetamoo and Petonowowctt,
whom the queen married after the death of Wamsutta, were both
opposed to the war, but could not control the young warriors who
were attracted to Philip's war-dances, and were there inflamed with
the war-passion of the chief. Weetamoo was the sister of Woo-
tonekanaske, it is said, and as she was doubly sister-in-law of Philip,
it is not strange that she followed the inclination of her warriors and
yielded to the craft and power of Philip, thus greatly strengthening
his hands. Petonowowett would not join Philip, but withdrew to
the English side and followed their fortunes throughout the struggle.
Weetamoo further assisted the cause of Philip by renouncing her
recreant husband, and marrying Quinapin, a JNarragansct chief, a
near relative of Canonchet, and second in command at the great
"fort-fight;" he was prominent in the attack upon Lancaster,
becoming the master of Mrs. Powlandson by purchasing her from
her captor.

There are many proofs of the ability of Philip as a diplomat, in
planning and preparing for the war. He succeeded his brother as
the chief Sachem of the Wampanoags about 1GG2. This is not the
place to discuss the causes which led to the war. The passion *j»f
the English for territory ; their confidence that God had opened up
America for the exclusive occupancy of Puritans and Pilgrims ;
their contempt for the Indians, and utter disregard of their rights ;
made war with them inevitable, sooner or later. The earlier circum-
Btances of the war have been related in the course of this series.
Judged by all that can be gleaned from history, Philip seems to us,
not the terrible monster which our first historians painted him, but
a leader of consummate skill, in bringing together the unwieldy
and mostly unwilling forces, and pushing forward other bands of
other tribes to bear the brunt and dangers which his own plotting had
brought upon them. He was doubtless hurried into open hostilities
by the ill-advised action of his young warriors, long before even his
own tribe were prepared for the consequences of such rash action.
Thousands of acres of corn were hastily abandoned by his people in
their precipitate flight. The Wampanoags, with all related and
dependent bands, were overwhelmed by the unexpected forces sent
against them, and were only saved from utter destruction, partly by
the slow motion of the English troops under Capt. Henchman, but
mainly by the adroit and secret management of Philip in "wafting"
his wdiole active force over the water, leaving only one hundred of
their women and children, and escaping into the Nipmuck country.
There he succeeded in eluding his pursuers, disposing his non-fight-
mg people in various tribes, and, while holding a sufficient body-
guard with himself to inspire respect and insure a hearing among
the various Northern tribes, he had some of his ablest men visiting
the more distant tribes, and everywhere persuading, bribing and
threatening the chiefs into co-operation ; and before the end of Sep-

64 Soldiers in King Philip* s War. [Jan,

tember he had practically nil the Nipmucks, with the tribes of
Massachusetts from the Merrimac to the Connecticut, pledged and
already active in his service. But the impression from all known
testimony is, that loyalty to Philip was inspired by fear rather than
love or admiration. There is no proof known to me of any act of
personal daring on his part, and I have not found any real evidence
that he was personally engaged in any of the battles of the whole
war, or that he led, in person, any attack or raid or ambuscade.
The rumors of that day, and the statements of later historians that he
was present at certain fights, are not verified by evidence ; and
while there is little doubt that he directed and planned many of the
most bloody and destructive attacks upon the settlements, he seems
always to have kept at a safe distance from personal clanger.

In December, 1G75, Philip retired beyond the Connecticut, and
before the first of January was encamped some forty miles above
Albany. It is probable that he was there negotiating with the
Mohawks, by his agents, for their cooperation in the spring, and it
is believed that he had assurance from the French of ammunition and
arms, together with a body of Canadian Indians to re-inforce him.
But there were many things which might w r ell discourage the chief
at this time, notwithstanding all these promises of help, and the fact
that the most of the tribes were committed to the war.

Canonchet and his Narragansets had not yet committed them-
selves, nor seemed inclined to do so, which was very depressing,
not only to the leaders, but to those other chiefs and tribes who in
one way or another had committed themselves to his cause. And
again there was disaffection among the tribes and the chiefs who had
been involved in the war by Philip's arts ; and one of these, a Sachem
of the Northampton Indians, attempted to kill him and threatened
that he w^ould, declaring that Philip had involved them in the
war and brought great trouble upon them. But soon a new
and tremendous impulse was given to the Indian side, when the
scouts and advanced parties of the Narragansets began to come
among the tribes in their hasty retreat, bringing news of their
defeat and the disastrous destruction of their great fortress. At
first they were not believed, and were not received by the Nipmucks
and their allies, because they had been looked upon as pledged by
the English to remain neutral ; and, as the denunciation of the
great leader and his tribe for their indifference had been rife in all
the great war councils of the adherents of Philip, so now these
advance parties of their retreat were not believed, and when they came
to the camp at Menameset, they were repulsed and their messenger
shot at, being accused of treachery and of being friends of the English,
although they brought English scalps and heads in proof of their
story. But when larger parties came, bringing more proofs of the
same kind, and furnished confirmation from various sources, there
was great rejoicing by the Indians that they had been thus struck

1890.] Soldiers in King Philip's War, 65

down by the English, whom they had been so slow to fight. Their
rejoicing was equally great because of the immense acquisition of
the strong tribe and valiant chief, the prestige of whose name and
numbers turned all faltering and hesitation into willing and eager
adherence. And as they had been last to break into hostility
against the settlers, so their causes of hatred and desire for revenge
were deeper.

If the true history of the course of treatment which the Narra-
canset Indians received at the hands of the English was written,
there would be few more disgraceful chapters in all our annals. In
1637 the English had joined the Narragansets and Mohegins for the
destruction of the Pequods, which being accomplished, they became
the arbiters of the fate of the two allied tribes, making them agree that
all questions as between them should be left to the English. Uncas,
chief of the Mohegins, was crafty, cowardly and treacherous ;
Miantonimoh, Sachem of the Narragansets, was frank, proud and
brave. The one became the willing tool of the English ; the other
stood up in his manhood, and for his rights, as hereditary chief of a
powerful tribe. But the noble qualities of the Narraganset chief, in
the eyes of the colonial authorities, were no match for the crafty
subserviency of Uncas ; and when, in 1643 (after repeated unjust
and unnecessary summons before the colonial courts, where he
bore himself with such courage and dignity as to challenge the

1 respect of even so sturdy a diplomat as Gov. Winthrop), he became

involved in a fresh quarrel with Uncas, and fell into a snare of the
Mohegin, and was made captive, — and, incredible as it seems to us
| now, the Commissioners of the United Colonies gave their sanction

to his death, leaving it to the vengeful hate of Uncas to execute the
decree, lie was soon after beheaded by Uncas, in the brutal fashion
of their laws. And thus Miantonimoh, probably the noblest and
ablest Sachem of that day, was destroyed by the craft and deceit of
Uncas, one of the most despicable characters known in our history.
Mr. Hubbard thus concludes his account :

His head was cut off by Uncas, it being justly feared that there would
never be any linn Peace, either betwixt the English and Narhagansets or
betwixt the Narhagansets and Mohegins while Miantonimoh was left alive;
however the Narhagansets have ever since that time borne an implacable
Malice against the Uncas and all the Mohegins, and for their sakes secretly
against the English, so far as they durst discover it.

Mr. Hubbard, in explaining the causes of the war of 1675-7,
recounts the relations of the Colonies with the Narragansets, and
unconsciously draws for us a picture of arrogance, intolerance and
selfishness, on the part of the English, which shows all the more
plainly to us because he has such a clear conviction of the righteousness
and justice of the colonial authorities. And he sums up at the last,
bringing his account down to the beginning of 1675 :

Thus it is apparent upon what Terms the English stood with the

G5 Soldiers in King Philip** War. [Jan.

Narrhagansets even since the cutting off Miantbnimoli, their Chief Sachems
Head by Uncus, it being clone from the Advice and Counsel of the English,
Anno, 1643.

At the beginning of "Philip's War" the Sachem of the Narra-
gansets was Canonchet, son of Miantonimoh, an able, prudent and
brave chief, who, though subjected to the tyranny of the colonies
and followed "by the constant enmity and falsehood of old Uncus,
had been able to maintain peace with the English and their allies
and to lead bis people to prosperity and power; so that in 1 ( j 7 5 he
was by far the most powerful chief in Xew England, his fighting
force being reckoned by some authorities as high as four thousand
warriors. This estimate is probably double his actual force. It is
said that he had encouraged Philip in the design to make a general
revolution against the colonies, and had promised to be ready in
1676 to enter such war with his whole available force. When,
however, Philip's men precipitated hostilities by the murder of
Sausamon, first, and then by open and active preparation, where
justice was dealt to the murderers, Canonchet restrained his people
and would not join Philip, but on the other hand would not assist
in fighting him. When the troops had driven Philip and his people
out from Mount Hope and held them, as they thought securely, in
the Pocasset swamps, command came from Boston to march the
army into the Narraganset country and demand a treaty at the point
of the sword. That action seems to us now, as strategy, the height
of stupidity ; in spirit, the extreme of intolerance ; and in result,
entirely disastrous.

The only pretext for the invasion was the rumor that the Narra-
gansets were harboring some of the women and children of those
who were in arms. They restated the terms of a former treaty and
demanded that the Sachem should take arms against Philip. The
troops did not find Canonchet or any of his Counsellors or Chiefs, but
only a few chance stragglers and old men unable to flee ; and with
these entirely irresponsible men, the officers made the treaty, the
articles of which are remarkable only for their overweening conceit
and intolerance, as well as the utter disregard of the rights of the
Indians. Those poor creatures, whom the English forced to stand
for Canonchet and his chiefs, had no more understanding of the big
sounding sentences, framed perhaps by schoolmaster Henchman, or
Mr. Dudley, than would an equal number of their native trees.
Canonchet seems to have ignored this treaty entirely, and probably
looked upon it as one more instance of the crafty influence of Uncas,
who had hastened forward to assist the English at his earliest oppor-
tunity. And yet the Narraganset chief held aloof from Philip's
active operations, evidently strengthening his own people with arms,
ammunition and provisions, besides training his warriors and forti-
fying his country in several parts, as if determined to withstand any
attack which might be made upon him.

1890.] Soldiers in King Philip's War. 67

Canonchet, thus standing aloof from participation in the war, and
fearing nothing from the English who were constantly exercised
against him by the wily arts of the Mohegins, was summoned to
Boston where he appeared before the Council and bore himself with
manly dignity, but was constrained by his situation and by the
threats of the Council, to sign a treaty binding him to fight against
the hostile Indians, and to seize and deliver up all those Indians
who had taken part in the war and were now tied to his territories
for shelter. This demand, so impossible for him to fulfil, he was
induced to promise under the pressure of present danger, knowing
well that a refusal to accede to their demands would be taken as
confirmation of the charges against him, and would result in his
detention and perhaps death. He had no idea of the sacredness of
his promise in this treaty, and his experience with the English in
former treaties had not tended to give him exalted ideas of treaty
promises. He was allowed to depart, having received the present
of a coat, gaudily laced. We do not know how much effort he
made to carry out his promise ; we do know that he gathered his
own people into the great fortress in the swamps, where, in De-
cember, he was overwhelmed by the Colonial army ; in which battle
great numbers of his people were destroyed.

The story of that fearful battle and its result to the English, and
from their side, has been told. We know but little from the Indian
side, and that only by accidental testimony. The English troops
recruited at AVickford until the last of January, when, having been
reinforced with fresh troops, they began the "Long March" through
the Nipmuck Country, around to Marlborough and then to Boston.
Ante, Vol. XL. p. 182.

Canonchet and his Narragansets had profited by the time of the
army's inactivity ; they returned to their ruined forts and buried
their dead, cared for their wounded, and quietly sent their women
and children with their sick and wounded out of harm's way. Then
with a strong band of his fighting men as a rear-guard. Canonchet
hung about the army, and closely observed all its motion?, keeping
out his scouts in every direction, with a line of post;? and temporary
camps along the whole line of the great "trail" even to the vicinity
of Quabaog, where he soon established relations of alliance with the
hostile tribes gathered at head quarters at Menamesct. But just
upon the eve of the advance of the troops, the Narragansets made a
swift descent upon Warwick, where they burnt the buildings and corn
and hay of Mr. Carpenter, and drove away near two hundred sheep,
fifty large cattle, and fifteen horses of his, besides many cattle from a
Mr. Harris. Our army pursued the Indians and had a sharp
skirmish with their rear-guard, in which the Indians, though losing
heavily, were able to divert the army and cover the retreat of a
large body having in charge the cattle and supplies, with many of
the women and children, who with many of the wounded and help-

68 Soldiers in King Philip 9 8 War. [Jan.

less had been encamped at the "Rocks," a very strong natural
fortress, and hitherto deemed an impregnable retreat for the Indians.
It is probable that the Indian leaders were somewhat disconcerted by
the advance of the army both as to time and direction. The; attack
upon Mr. Carpenter was partly perhaps to turn the attention of the
English in that direction. They succeeded in eluding the army,
however, and were received into the great gathering of the tribes at
their chief head quarters beyond Quabaog, after they had proved
that they were really at war with the English, by bringing the usual
evidence of English scalps and heads. There is evidence that old
Canonicus, uncle of Canonchet, and many of the older chiefs of the
Narragansets and their subject tribes, like Ninigret, chief of the Nian-
tics, tried hard to restrain the warriors from open war. But the proud
spirit of the younger Canonchet could not bow to the terrible blow
they had received, and while the old chiefs were allowed to ne-
gotiate with the English about a treaty, Canonchet and the younger
men, with Quinnapin as an able second, were training and prepar-
ing for war. After the junction was made with the Northern tribes,
Philip having been apprised of it and promised plenty of ammunition
from the French, the Narragansets were added as a part of the great
hostile force of Indians gathered in the western parts. Canonchet,
according to the contemporary historian, Hubbard, became the real
leader of the great unorganized army of the Indian tribes. His
warriors far outnumbered the other tribes, besides being better trained
and equipped, despite the severe losses they had met at the great
fort. Mr. Hubbard wrote in 1676, about Canonchet upon the
Connecticut in the winter and spring of 1675-6 :

For all the whole body of the Indians to the westward, trusting under
the shadow of the aspiring Bramble; he took a kind of care of them upon
himself. Wherefore foreseeing so many hundreds could not well subsist with-
out planting; he propounded it in his Council, that all the West plantations
upon the Connecticut River taken from the English, should this last
summer be planted with Indian Corn ; which was indeed in itself a very
prudent consideration : To that End he resolved to venture himself with but
thirty men (the rest declining it) to fetch a ^eed-corn from Seuconk, the
next town to Mount Hope; leaving a body of men, not fewer thau fifteen
hundred to follow him or meet him about Seacouk the week after.

Mr. Hubbard's account continuing shows that the great chief
pursuing his purpose came with his small company into his own
territories, evidently with the design of recovering the large quantities
of corn that were left stored in various places, and probably with
the intention of planning a descent upon some of the southern plan-
tations, as, on February 10th, their confederates, probably with their
help, had swept down upon Lancaster, and ten days later upon
Medfield. The intention of the Indians was evidently to distract the
attention of the English by striking heavy blows in distant parts of the
colonies. Connecticut was protected by the presence of the Mohe-

1890.] Soldiers in King Philip's War. 69

gins and Pequods, whom the hostile Indians dreaded far more than
the English, as they were their equals in wood craft and Indian
tactics. After the attack upon MedfieM, the attacking party
advanced into Plymouth Colony, and probably formed a junction
with another large body, doubtless with the purpose of concentrating
a large force upon some of the larger towns, while smaller bodies
kept making demonstrations here and there upon some smaller
places. On February 25th they assaulted Weymouth, and burned
seven or eight houses and barns. On March 12th they pushed even
into Plymouth town and destroyed Clark's Garrison House, about
two miles from Plymouth village, with eleven persons within it,
plundered the provisions, a quantity of ammunition, and quite a sum
of money, without a single man lost or wounded. Another party
suddenly assaulted Warwick on March 16th or 17th, and destroyed
nearly all the houses, though the people escaped. Nearly all the
detached houses in the Narraganset country were attacked and
destroyed within a few weeks, and many of the large towns were
threatened.

Plymouth Colony on February 8, 1675-6, had ordered a company
of men to be impressed from the southern towns of the colony, and
on the 29th the Council ordered "that the Souldiers now under
Presse, from the Southern Towns, be at Plymouth on Wednesday
the 8th of this Instant (March) in order unto a further March, and
with them 20 or 30 of the Southern Indians, whoe together with the
other whoe are under Presse to goe forth under the Command of
Captain Michael Peirse and Lieftenant Samuell Fuller." The force
probably got ready sometime in the middle of March. ' f Capt.
Amos," a Wampanoag Indian who refused to follow with Philip and
joined the friendly Indians, was in command of the Cape Indians in
Capt. Peirse's command, and also acted as guide to the whole force.
The command marched to Seekonk, where they arrived March 25th,
and that day had a skirmish with a party of Indians in the vicinity, whom
they pursued until night and supposed they had seriously damaged.
Retiring to the Garrison House at Seekonk that night, early on the
next day, Sunday, March 26th, the command, increased by several
from Seekonk as guides, started again in pursuit of the enemy ; and
soon came across a few Indians who showed themselves in the dis-
tance and seemed to be trying to get away, but to be impeded by
lameness. The English as usual were lured to rush forward, and
in spite of former experiences and the warnings of the Indian allies,
they soon found themselves in an ambuscade. Though not taken
entirely by surprise by the old trick, which he believed his company
was strong enough to fight through, Capt. Peirse was entirely de-
ceived by the numbers of the Indians. He was a brave officer, and
supposing he had a large body, perhaps twice his own number, at
bay, he fearlessly attacked them even at great disadvantage. The
Indians did not discover their full numbers until they had drawn
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the English across a small river, to some distance, when the attempt
was evidently made to surround him. This forced him back upon
the bank of the river, where he found himself attacked in the rear by
a large party sent to cut him off. There is no doubt that Capt.
Peirse was out-generalled, as well as vastly out-numbered, and,
like the brave man that he was, he fought it out till he fell,
with his brave men around him. Before leaving the garrison
in the morning Capt. Peirse had sent a messenger to Capt.
Edmunds of Providence, asking him to cooperate in an attack upon
a large body of Indians then at Pawtucket Falls ; the messenger
however did not deliver his message until after the morning service
(it being Sunday), when Capt. Edmunds indignantly berated him,
declaring that it was then too late, as it proved. It is doubtful if a
company from Providence could have saved Capt. Peirse and his
men after they crossed the river, as with their great numbers the
Indians were able to beset every approach to the battle field, and
choose their ground.

It is doubtful if during the war the English had come face to face
in the open field with so large and so well organized a force of the
Indians. Canonchet doubtless directed the operations in this
campaign in person, and was assisted by the ablest chiefs and the
best warriors, picked from all the tribes. It was a signal victory
for the Indians and it confirmed Canonchet as the military leader
before all others. Great stores of corn had been opened up and sent
northward, with the plunder from the assaulted towns ; heavy
blows had been struck against the towns ; the non-combatants, the
infirm and helpless were safe in the vast forests stretching from
beyond Quabaog to Canada, and were guarded by a strong reserve.
He with his stout chiefs and their bands of loyal warriors were there-
fore free to carry the war into all parts of the colonies ; the great
expedition under Major Savage against Menameset, &c, had been
completely frustrated, and now this brilliant victory, as they counted
it, had carried terror and dismay to the southern towns. Canon-
chet may well have dreamed of reconquering his native dominions,
and doubtless believed that he could now reestablish his peoj le
there. Fearless by nature and feeling secure from invasion, he
was waiting, at his head quarters not far from Pawtucket, with but
few guards, having out large scouting parties scouring the country;
and a very large part of his force had doubtless gone to the north-
ward, with forage, plunder, and the dead and w r ounded from the
battle with Capt. Peirse, of whom the number was probably more
than one hundred. The loss on the part of the English was fifty-two
of the English and eleven of the friendly Indians. From the letter
of Rev. Noah Newman, of Rehoboth, written the day after the battle,
we get the names of those killed of Capt. Peirse's company.

1890.]

Emigrants to St. John, JS J . B.

Capt. Pierce,
John Lotlirope,
Thomas Savery,
'Jeremiah Barstow,
Joseph Perry,

Thomas Little,
John Burrows,
John Low,

John Sprague,

Benjamin Nye,

John Gibbs,

Lieut, Fuller,
Samuel Linnet,

John Matthews,

From Scituate, 15 Slain.
Samuel Russell, Benjamin Chittenden,

Gersbom Dodson,
Joseph Wade,
John Ensign,
John Rowse,

Mansfield, 9 Slain.

John Earns,
Joseph Phillips,
More ?

Samuel Pratt,
William Wilcome,
Joseph Co wen,

Duxbury, 4 Slain.

Benjamin Soal,
Joshua Fobes.

Joseph White,
Samuel Bump,
John Brance.

Thomas Hunt,

Sandwich, 5 Slain.

Daniel Bessey, Caleb Blake,

Stephen Wing.

Barnstable, G Slain.

John Lewis,
Samuel Childs, -

Yarmouth, 5 Slain.
John Gage,

Eleazer Clapp,
Samuel Bereman.

William Gage,

Henry Gage, Henry Gold.

Eastham, 3 Slain.

Joseph Nessefield, John Walker, John M (torn off.)

(Rehoboth ?), 2 Slain.

• John Fitz, Jr., John Miller, Jr.

The paper is much worn and multilated, so that the names of
several are lost. It is said that Miller and Fitz were of Rehoboth,
and probably others. Seven or eight names are needed, in addition,
to make up the fifty-five.

[To be continued.]

EMIGKANTS TO ST. JOHN, N. B., 1783.

Communicated by Samuel Raymond, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y.

The following document is from the Daily Telegraph, St. John, N. B.,
August 20, 1889. The Rev. William O. Raymond, who sent it to me,
writes: "The document is now in the possession of William Fyler Dibblee,
Woodstock, N. B. The ship 'Union' was the first to arrive in St. John,
bringing her complement of the five thousand ' Loyalist ' refugees landed

Emigrants to St. John, JV. B.

[Jan.

here (luring the summer of 1783. 'Widow Mary Raymond' was 2d wife
of Samuel 12 (see page 8, Raymond Genealogy) and "Silas Raymond' was
her youngest child (seepage 13). It would appear that the Connecticut
* Loyalists' took refuge on Long Island during the close of Revolutionary
War, and embarked from Huntington. There were two fleets, known as
the 'Spring' fleet and i Fall' fleet. The 18th May is here a public holiday
in honor of the founding of this city by the arrival of the main part of
the 'Spring fleet' in 1783."

Return of the Famelies, etc.. Embarked on Board the Union Transport,

Consett Wilson, Master, Began Huntington Bay April 11th,

and Gomplcated April \Gth, 1783.

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Stephen Fountain

Thomas Burdin

George Sweet

Thomas "Wade

Abram Dickerman

Eleazor Slokum

Samuel Boon

Massy Harris ....

George Lumsclcn. . . .

Robert Comely

John Fowler

John Hand

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65 Signers; 35 Women; 59 Children over 10 years old; 48 Children under 10 years
old ; 2 Servants. Total, 209.

(Signed)

A True Return Test,

FYLER DIBBLEE, D. Agt.

GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.

By Henry F. Waters, A.M.
[Continued from vol. xliii. page 428.]

The Ancestry of Washington.
No. II.
Since the publication of the pamphlet on the Ancestry of Wash-
ington contributions of interesting additional matter have been
received from various friends and correspondents.

Mr. Blaydes sent some notes which appealed so important that it
was thought well to send them to the N. Y. Nation, in order that
attention might generally be drawn to them. The following is a
reprint of the communication to the Nation.

To the Editor of the Nation :

Sir: The following very important contribution towards the history of
the Washington family has just been received from a well-known English
antiquary, in friendly response to the suggestion made by Mr. AVhitmore,
that the aid of our English friends might confidently be looked for.

VOL. XLIV. 7*

74 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

Mr. F. A. Blaydes, the editor of the Bedfordshire Notes and Queries,
writes uuder date of November 8 :

" Some fifteen years ago, when I was first bitten with the mania for searching
registers, I have a faint recollection of finding the name Washington of frequent
occurrence on some register that I went through. It was somewhere not far
from Luton, but whether Toddiugton, Chalgrove, or Hockliu'e, I cannot now
say for certain. However, I forward you a few data, bearing on your work,
one being a Washington marriage, which I hope will be of use.

NOTES FROM LUTON, CO. BEDS. REGISTER.

1663 Dec. 22. Washington, Mary, d. of Mr. Lawrence and Mary, bapt.

[Bishop's Transcripts.] '. ••'"" • T "'•*%

1668 Nov. 20, Freeman. Mrs. Mary, d. of Mr. Thomas [sic] and Mistress Hester, \

bapt. [Parish Register.]
1675 Jan. 14. Freeman, John, son of Mr. John [sic'] and Esther, bapt. [Bish- •'

op's Transcripts.]
1660 Jan. 26. Washington — Jones. Lawrence, gen. and Mrs. Mary, married.

[Bishop's Transcripts.]

" The will of Edmund Jones of Luton, gent., dated 8 Mar., 1682 (buried in
the parish church of Luton, 19 May, 1683), mentions grandchild Mary Wash-
ington, to whom he bequeaths 40 shillings. Proved at Bedford 24 June, 1689."

[It will be noted that three of these entries are from the Bishop's Tran-
scripts of the parish records. Mr. Freeman is termed Thomas in the first —
an undoubted error, whether made in the " Transcript " or by Mr. Blaydes
in copying.]

Here we have made known to us the maiden name and parentage of the
first wife of Lawrence Washington of Virginia, the dates of their marriage
and of the baptism of their daughter Mary, to whom, it will be remembered,
her father gave all his property in England by his last will and testament.
And it should not be forgotten that it was to Edmund Jones that letters of
administration on Lawrence Washington's goods in England were granted.

Two or three years ago I myself went to Luton to examine the parish
registers, but, though I reached the place early in the forenoon, it was not
until afternoon that I was able to get access to them. I looked rapidly
over the entries down to the year 1G58, inclusive, and, finding nothing,
hurried back to London. At that time, I suppose, everybody believed that
Lawrence Washington was married and in Virginia in 1658 and onward.
It now seems doubtful when he actually settled there. I have made no
thorough examination of the Feet of Fines later than those of the year
1657. They should be searched for ten years further at least. Now that
we know the Christian name of his wife, any conveyance of land in or about
Tring, made by Lawrence and Mary Washington, would be good evidence
to prove that Lawrence of Tring and Lawrence of Luton and Virginia
were one and the same. Knowing, too, the place and date of the marriage,
it might be worth the while to hunt for the marriage license, with the hope
to learn thence his place of nativity. If there are extant in Luton any
borough or guild records, we might get help from them. If young Law-
rence Washington was apprenticed to any tradesman in Luton, the book of
apprenticeships in which his indenture was enrolled would undoubtedly
settle the question of his parentage and place of nativity.

I would call attention to the fact that Lawrence Washington of Virginia
is now shown to have married his first wife in 1660, which helps us to form
an opinion as to his age. Lawrence of Tring must then have been twenty-
five'years old, which answers very well. Let me also call renewed attention
to the interesting and important part played in my story by Mr. John

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 75

Freeman of Luton, whom we find having children baptized, borne by his
wife Hester. It was this John Freeman of Luton whom Mrs. Elizabeth
Fitzherbert, aunt of Lawrence Washington of Tring, appointed executor of
her will and trustee of her real estate in Tring and Middleton Stony. His
wife Hester, we have found, was a daughter of William Roades of Middle
Claydon, and so a cousin of Lawrence Washington of Tring. Hither to
this parish of Luton, from somewhere in England, came a young Lawrence
Washington to marry his first wife, in 1GG0. Can any one doubt that it was
from Tring that he came ? If this is granted, my whole case must be
allowed; for Lawrence of Luton and Lawrence of Virginia were surely
one and the same, while Lawrence of Tring was clearly the son of a
clergyman of the same name, and that clergyman can have been no other
than the Fellow of Brasenose, whose pedigree was known.

Henry F. Waters.

[At the risk of seeming superfluous, I venture to point out that these
extracts prove the identity of Lawrence Washington of Luton, wdiose first
wife was Mary Jones, with the emigrant to Virginia. (1.) Because Law-
rence died in Virginia and his will was proved January 6, 1677. Adminis-
tration was granted in May, 1G77, to Edmund Jones, principal creditor, on
estate of Lawrence Washington formerly of Luton, County Beds., deceased
in Virginia. No one can doubt that these entries refer to the only known
emigrant.

(2.) Edmund Jones is clearly the father-in-law of Lawrence, and men-
tions his grandchild Mary Washington. Lawrence Washington of Virginia,
in his will, gives all his property in England to his daughter Mary and the
heirs of her body, and, failing them, to her half-brother and sister, children
of his second wifs. This devi.e, moreover, makes it a moral certainty that
Mary was an only child by the first wife, agreeing exactly with what the
Luton records show.

(3.) It has been supposed that Lawrence came to Virginia with his
brother John, about the year 1657. But this rests solely upon Gen- George
Washington's statement that such was the family tradition. But George
was descended from John, the brother of Lawrence, and, even at that time,
a century after the emigration, the two families seem to have drifted apart.
There are many Washingtons in Virginia not descended from John, who
were not clearly traced even to L.iwrence.

Now, Mr. Brock's citations from the Virginia Land Registry show grants
to John Washington as early as 1661, in connection with Thomas Pope,
but the earliest entry to Lawrence is September 27, 1667, jointly with
Robert Richards. Is there any evidence that Lawrence ivas here before 1 667 ?

If Lawrence married Mary Jones at Luton in 1660, and had a daughter
Mary in December, 1663, and no other child, is it not a fair inference that
the mother died soon after, and that Lawrence then turned his steps
towards his brother John, already well established in Virginia, and became
resident there about the date of his purchase of land in Stafford county as
above cited ? W. H. Whitmobe.]

George E. Cokayne, M.A., F.S.A., Norroy King of Arms,
sent notes of matriculation at Oxford (1581 to 1714) of a dozen
individuals bearing the family name of Washington, from which we
extract the following as bearing especially on this Northamptonshire
line.

Genealogical Gleanings in England,

[Jan,

1588, Dec. 6, Christopher, s. of "gent.," co. Northam., 15, Oriel.

u u tt William " " " " " 11, «

1594, Nov. [ — ], Lawrence s. of "gent.," Herts., 15, Balliol.
1621, Nov. 2, Lawrence, s. of "gent.," co. Nmpton., 10, Brasenose.
1638, May 4, Lawrence, s. of Lawrence, Xn 1 ., London, aged 15,

S l . John's.

Of the above list Christopher and William were undoubtedly sons
of Robert Washington of Sulgrave (see Pedigree), and Lawrence
(1594) was the son of Lawrence Washington, Esq., the Register of
the court of Chancery, who then lived in Much Hadhani, Herts.
He succeeded to the office of Registrar and was knighted. The
second Lawrence in the list (who was matriculated in 1621) was
the Fellow of Brasenose and father (probably) of the Virginians.
The last Lawrence (1638) was the father of Lady Ferrars.

I visited Much Hadham, and, through the kindness of the Revds.
S. S. Pearce and E. M. W. Templeman, was enabled to examine
Parish Registers, whence I gleaned the following : —

Baptized.
5 April 1579 Lawrence the sonn of Lawrence Washington gent.

4 May 1580 Clement sonn of Lawrence Washington gent.

. 4 February 1581(2) Mary daughter of Lawrence Washington gent.
22 January 1583(4) (26 th Eliz.) Clement sonn of Lawrence Washington
gent.

Burials.
28 Sept. 1579 Clement Newce Esquier.

5 May 1580 Clement sonn of Lawrence Washington gent.
26 Aug. 1582 Mistresse Mary Newce widdow.

From the Much Hadham Church Monthly for November, 1889,
sent me by the Rev. Mr. Templeman, I learn that Clement Newce,
Esq., his father (Thomas) and his grandfather all lived in the house
which originally stood on the site of the present mansion in the
village known as Much Hadham Hall. I examined the will of Mr.
Newce, which was proved 23 November, 1579, but as it was 17 July,
1564 (before the marriage of his daughter to Lawrence Washington),
I found nothing that seemed to me worth preserving here. Ilia
wife's name was then Mary, and he provided for his burial within
the parish church and willed "that a stone be laved upon my grave
and that thereon be fixed in plates graved with the pictures of my
selfe and my wife and all my children and the amies of London, the
mercers' armes, the armes of frlaunders and mine ownc armes."
These brasses still remain in excellent preservation, and the Rev. Mr.
Pearce was kind enough to give me a rubbing of them which he had
recently made. The Rev. Alexander No well, D.D., Dean of St.
Paul's, was rector of Hadham, 1562-1589, and was succeeded by the
Rev. Theophilus Aylmer or Elmer, D.D., second son of John,
Bishop of London.

From the Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D., Mitchell's Station, Cul-

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 77

neper Co., Virginia, some notes concerning this branch of the
Northamptonshire family have been received, which were written in
1880 by Mr. Conway Robinson, the learned jurist, and historian,
and printed in 1881. Mr. Robinson states :

It appears as to Lawrence Wasshington of Sulgrave, in Northampton
county, that this second son, also named Lawrence, was entered of Gray's
Inn in 1571, called to the bar in 1582, had a country residence at Jordon's
Hall, Maidstone, and was Registrar of the Court of Chancery from March
24, 1593, until the end of that reign; that he was in King James' first
parliament (1603) a member for Maidstone, and assisted by deputies, con-
tinued personally to discharge the duties of the office of Registrar until his
death, on Dec. 21, 1G19, at his house in Chancery Lane; that he was then
succeeded in the oifice of Registrar by his son Laurence Washington, who
was, in 1627, knighted by King Charles the First, and held the office of
Registrar until 1643, when he died at Oxford and was buried at Garsden,
his residence in Wiltshire.

Lawrence Washington of Maidstone is omitted in the Genealogical
Table published by Jared Sparks in his writings of Washington, Edi.
1837, Vol. L, pp. 552, 553.*

My friend Mr. Phillimore also contributes the following paper
(sent to the editor).

Mr. Waters's long looked for pamphlet has just arrived. None can
doubt his wisdom in printing these valuable notes at once, instead of waiting
until he had absolute legal proof of the identity of the father of the Tring
Washingtons with the Rev. Lawrence Washington, rector of Purleigh.
One need not be very sanguine in hoping that this legal proof will soon
come. Every scrap of evidence should be at once published, whether
dealing directly with the Virginian Washingtons or their collaterals, and this
will be a sufficient excuse for sending the following notes: —

P. 31 of Mr. Waters's pamphlet, line 2 from foot, for Northampton read
Nottingham.^

P. 42. The Pope family. John Washington the emigrant married
Ann Pope. Evidently from the will of Thomas Pope of Bristol, 1685,
quoted by Mr. Waters, she was of a Gloucestershire family. As her father
was Nathaniel, and her brother Thomas, it is perhaps worth noting that the
will, dated and proved in 1738, of Elizabeth Phillimore of Cam, Gloucester-
shire, widow of Josiah Phillimore, names Elizabeth and Mary, daughters
of her brother Nathaniel Pope, and her nephew and niece John and Eliza-
beth, children of her brother Thomas Pope. These Popes were of Cam.

Pages 52 and 53, Mr. Waters mentions a William Roades of Finemore,
1657, and suggests. that as Fine More hill is near Edgeeote and Quainton,
the records of those places should be searched. But it is more probable!

* It is also omitted by Baker and other writers, but is not omitted in the Visitation of
Northamptonshire. As it is not in the president's line of ancestry, it does not atfeet his
pedigree.— Kditor.

t I am obliged to my friend for calling mv attention to this error, into which I was led
by following copy. The error appears in the Visitation of Northampton, published by the
Harleian Society. — n. r. w.

J I disagree with my friend entirely. In my first investigations among the maps of the
region about Middle Clavdon, 1 noticed both Fineraere, Oxfordshire and Fine More Hill,
just south of Midair Clavdon Park, and the rector of Middle Claydon, with whom I
talked it over, spoke of the latter place as near by, through the woods. Since then 1 have
noted on another old map the name Finemore Farm. I have little doubt that investigation
Will show that this Farm was among the estates of the Verney family. Perhaps those
geldings were kept there.— h. f. w.

78 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

that it ought to be identified with a village in Oxfordshire on the borders
of Buckinghamshire, five miles from Buckingham, now called Finmere but
anciently Finemore. At any rate inquiry about the Itoades family should
be made there.

In passing the " Lichfield Wills" through the press for the " Index
Library," a solitary Washington will has just come to light. It is that of
an Agnes Washington, 1547; residence not given in calendar. As far a3
the work has at present gone this is the only will of the name in the Lich-
field Registry. But search has not yet extended later than 1562.

W. P. W. Phillimore, 124 Chancery Lane, London.

And my young friend Mr. Leland L. Duncan, who is doing ad-
mirable work among the records for his own county (Kent), has
sent me the following note from

Christeninges in the Parrish of Chisselherst in Kent. 1G14.
Lawrence sonne of Lawrence Washington and Anne his wife was chris-
tened on y e 24 th daie of July in the place at Modingha,* generosi.

This must have been a son of Sir Lawrence who died young, the
Lawrence matriculated in 1638 being several years younger.

Henry F. Waters.

[The will of Lawrence Washington, son of the emigrant and grandfather of
ie President, and the annotations on it by Mr. John C. J. Brown, are printed

the President, and the annotations on it by Mr. John C. J. Brown, are printed in
these Gleanings (Register, vol. 43, pp. 81-3). Mr. Brown's suspicions in re-
gard to the Washington pedigree in Mr. Albert Welles's book were well founded,
as the researches of Col. Chester and Mr. Waters prove.

Mildred, the widow of the above Lawrence Washington, went to England,
and in November, 1700, applied for a grant of probate on the estate of her late
husband. At this time she was the wife of George Gale of Whitehaven, Cum-
berland. Two months later she died and was buried at St. Nicholas', Whitehaven,
Jan. 30, 1700-1. The discovery of her will and other records in relation to her
by Mr. J. C. C. Smith of Somerset House, Loudon, led to the publication of an
interesting article by that gentleman in the Genealogist (London. January, 1883)
vol. 7, pp. 1-3, entitled, "New Notes on the Ancestry of George Washington,"
a valuable contribution to the Washington research. — Editor.]

Rev. John Nassau Simpkinson, the rector of Brington, by the publication of
his historical novel of " The Washingtons" in 1800, and by his speech at the
dinner in London on Washington's birth-day in 18G2, revived the interest in the
pedigree which has Anally been satisfied by Mr. Waters's researches. Mr.
Simpkinson was in full and confidential communication with the late Col.
Chester, and has kindly informed us that the folloAving facts were in the
possession of Mr. Chester, and were discussed by him with his friends.

1. Administration of the goods of Amphilis Washington to her son John.

2. Adm. of Lawrence W., late of Luton, who died in Virginia.

3. The will of Theodore Pargiter, 1G5G (the one printed by Mr. Waters,

Parti, pp. 84-5).

" Col. Chester was thrown off the scent by the saying of the great President
that the emigrants came from a northern county, and latterly he thought he
had found the man he was looking for somewhere in the north, Durham, 1 think.
or Northumberland. Of this, however, he would not tell me, reserving himself
for an irrefragable proof of his discovery."

Mr. George E. Cockayne, who was Col. Chester's executor, writes that he
has not found in the papers left to him the deed which Col. Chester possessed,
and which he thought was made by one of the emigrant Washingtons. Mr.
Cockayne has also as yet no trace to the law-suit in which Rev. Lawrence W.
was concerned when rector of Purleigh; but he has kindly promised to make
search therefor.

These facts are worth mentioning as showing how much Col. Chester had
found; and, I may add, as a proof that it is perhaps wiser to print facts as fast

* Mottingham.

1800.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 79

„<, obtained, even when not exhaustive of any subject, as thereby the attention
of other antiquaries is directed to the deliciencies which their notes may make
good.— W. H. WmTMbitE.

flishop Meade's " Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia," vol. 2,
pages 1G7-8, contains an abstract of the will of John Washington, the emigrant.
The will is dated February 2G, 1G75 (that is, 1G75-G), and was proved the lOtli of
January, 1077 (that is, 1G77-8). Bishop Meade prefixes this statement :— " L have
obtained, by the help of a friend, the will of John Washington, which was
recorded at Westmoreland Court House, and whose original is still there in an
old book of wills, though in a somewhat mutilated form." Neither the record
nor the original will can now be found. Mr. Brock, of Richmond, writes me:
"Some years ago, in 1877, in behalf of our lamented friend Col. Chester, 1 made
numerous inquiries for the will of John Washington, of friends and the county
court clerks of Westmoreland, Essex, Richmond, Northampton and Stafford
counties, without avail and without finding a document with the signature of
John Washington. The will has certainly disappeared from the records of
Westmoreland county. I have since left no inliuence untried, but have learned
of no trace of the will." Mr. Greenwood, who furnishes us with a copy of the will
of Lawrence Washington, obtained in 1873, tried at the same time to get a copy of
the will of his brother John, but without success. Mr. Moncure 1). Conway, in
an article in the New York Nation, Oct. 2f last, says: "The Rev. Dr. E. C.
McGuire, writing in 183G, says that the will in question was then at Mount
Vernon, with the endorsement, ' The Will of Lieutenant Colonel Washington.'
Dr. McGuire married a daughter of Robert Lewis, Washington's nephew and
private Secretary, and his statement is of sufficient weight to cause the heirs of
Judge Bushrod Washington, who inherited Mount Vernon, to institute a general
search. For even if the document referred to was a copy of the will, it would
be of high value in directing rightly the researches " relating to the Washiugtons.
Bishop Meade's abstract follows. — Editor.]

"In the name of God, Amen. I, John Washington, of Washington
parish, in the county of Westmoreland, in Virginia, gentleman, being of
good and perfect memory, thanks be unto Almighty God for it, and calling
to remembrance the uncertain state of this transitory life, that all flesh
must yield unto death, do make, constitute, and ordain this my last will
and testament and none other. And first, being heartily sorry, from the
bottom of my heart, for my sins past, most humbly desiring forgiveness
of the same from the Almighty God, my Saviour and Redeemer, in whom
and by the merits of Jesus Christ I trust and believe assuredly to be saved,
and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins, and that my soul
with my body at the general resurrection shall rise again with joy."
■ Again he repeats the same sentiment, hoping " through the merits of
Jesus Christ's death and passion to possess and inherit the kingdom of
heaven prepared for his elect and chosen/' He directs his body to be buried
on the plantation upon which he lived, by the side of his wife and two
children. He then proceeds to distribute his property, which he says it has
pleased God to give him " far above his deserts." After dividing a number
of landed estates between his second and surviving wife and his children, —
John, Laurence and Anne, — and also his property in England, he directs
that a funeral sermon be preached and no other funeral kept, and that a
tablet with the Ten Commandments be sent for to England and given to
the church. I think, also, that he directs four thousand-weight of tobacco
to be given to the minister, though of this I am not certain, some words
being lost. lie leaves one thousand pouuds to his brother-in-law, Thomas
Pope, and one thousand pounds and four thousand-weight of tobacco to
bis sister, who had come or was coming over to this country. He makes
bis wife and brother Laurence his executors.

[The Rev. Edward D. Neill, D.D., in his Address on Washington, delivered at

80 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

St. Paul, Feb. 22, 1880, says that the above John Washington "married after
his first wife's death, the widow of Walter Brodhnrst, whose maiden name i
Anne Pope." Rev. Dr. Neill, in reply to an inquiry for the evidence, under date
of Nov. 23, 1889, writes me as follows :

"Until I receive a letter from Lilleshall, Shropshire, Eng. , I cannot prepare
such an artiele as I desire. This much is said to be true. John Washingti
married the widow Anne Brodhnrst, whose maiden name was Pope. Her fii
husband's name was Walter; by -whom she had several children, one of whom.
Walter, lived during his last years at Lilleshall and there died. Walter was the
son of William Brodhurst. William when he died left a legacy to his daughter-
in-law. If these facts are correct, Walter Brodhurst and Lawrence Washington
son of John were half-brothers.

"In Neill's ' Pounders of Maryland,' page 139, John Washington, in a letter
under date of Sept. 30, 1G59,* writes ' I intend to get my young sonne baptized.
All y e Company and Gossips being already invited.'

" The young son was probably Lawrence. He had three children by his last
Wife, — John, Lawrence, Anne."

Mr. Brock of Richmond writes me concerning the Broadhurst connection.
that the discovery of the marriage with Broadhurst was made by Col. Chester,
in 1880, and Mr. Brock made research in Virginia in relation to the name, lie
sends the following items :

Walter Broadhurst was a member of the House of Burgesses from Northum-
berland Co., July, 1653. He died in 1G5G, leaving bequests to his wife Ann
Broadhurst and son Walter. He was a son of William Broadhurst of co. Salop,
Gent., England. His will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
Nov. 19, 1058.

Walter Broadhurst the elder came to Virginia in or prior to the year 1G50.
He was granted Oct. 4, 1G50, 500 acres of land in Northumberland Co. Va. Land
Registry, Book No. 2, p. 249. His son Walter was granted 300 acres, Dec. ( J,
1662. Book No. 4, p. 550. Gerard Broadhurst, probably another son, also
received the same date 500 acres " near the laud of Nath'l Pope." Book No. 4,
p. 553.

Mr. Isaac J. Greenwood of New York writes me :

"Col. John 1 W., according to Meade, desires in his will to be buried on the
plantation where he lives, by the side of his (first) wife and two children. I
understand this old burial ground to have been £ mile south of the homestead,
on opposite side of Bridge's Creek, Westm'd Co. Here also his 2d son Law-
rence 2 was buried in 1697, though he had settled in Gloucester Co.. on the
Pionkatank Kiver, where there is also an old grave-yard. The hitter's son John 3
Washington, of the 3d generation, was a vestryman of Petsworth Parish,
Gloucester Co., and a letterf of his to Messrs. Cary & Co. of London, dated July
12, 1744, is extant, containing instructions for a tombstone with the arms. In
April, 18G4, there was exhibited in the " Dept. of Arms & Trophies" of the
N. Y. Sanitary Fair, a steel rapier (point broken), with steel hilt apparently
6et originally with stones, said to have been brought from England by the
Washington family and to have been presented by Gen. George Washington to
Gen. John Caldwell of Md. (yuery, — B. Gen. .John Cadwallader?)"

The following copy of the will of Lawrence Washington the emigrant and the
brother of John, has been furnished for the Register by Mr. Greenwood.—
Editor.]

In the name of God Amen I Lawrence Washington of the County of
Rappac being sick & weak of body but of sound and perfect memory do
make & ordain this my last will & Testament hereby revoaking anulling &
making void all former wills and Coddicills heretofore by me made either
by word or writing & this only to be taken for my last will & testament.
Imp es I give and bequeath my Soule into the hands of Almighty God hop-

* The extract from the Maryland records containing this letter was first printed in the
Historical Magazine for January, 1867, 2d series, vol. 1, pp. 29-30.— Editor.

f Mentioned in an Autograph sale of Messrs. Southgate, Griniston & Wells, No. 22 Fleet
St., London, held June 2 and 3, 1830.

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 81

in£ and trusting through the mercy of Jesus Christ my one Savior and
redeemer to receive full pardon & forgiveness of all my sins and my body
to the earth to be buried in comely & decent manner by my Executrix
hereafter named & for my worldly goods I thus dispose them — Item 1 give
and bequeath unto my loveing daughter Mary Washington my whole
Estate in England both real & personal to her and the heirs of her body
lawfully begotten forever to be delivered into her possession imediately
after my decease by my Executrix hereafter named. I give & bequeath
unto my afofes d daughter Mary Washington my smallest Stone ring &
one silver cup now in my possession to her & her heirs forever to be
delivered to her imediately after my decease. I give & bequeath unto my
loveing son John Washington all my books to him & his heirs forever, to
be delivered to him when he shall come to the age of Twenty one years.
I give & bequeath unto my son John & daughter Anne Washington all
the rest of my plate but what is before exprest to be equally divided
between them & delivered into their possession when they come of age.
Item my will is that all my debts which of right & justice I owe to any
man be justly & truly paid as also my funerall expenses after which my
will is, that all my whole Estate both real and personal be equally divided
between my loving wife Jane Washington & the two children God hath
given me by her viz.: John & Ann Washington. I give & bequeath it all
to them & their heirs of their bodies lawfully beggotten forever, my sonn's
part to be delivered to him when he comes of age & my daughters part
when she comes of age or day of marriage which shall first happen.

Item my w r i!l is that that land which became due to me in right of my
wife lying on the South Side of the river formerly belonging to Cap*
Alexander Flemming & commonly known by the name of AVest Falco be
sold by my Executrix hereafter named for the payment of my debts im-
mediately after my decease. Item my will is that the land I have formaly
entered with Capt. W m Mosely be forthwith after my decease surveyed &
pattented by my Exec 1 hereafter named, & if it shall amount to the quantity
of one thousand acres, then I give & bequeath unto Alexander Barron two
hundred acres of the s d land to him & his heirs forever the remainder I
give & bequeath unto my loveing wife afores d & two children to them &
their heirs forever to be equally divided between them. Item my will is
that if it shall please God to take my daughter Mary out of this world
before she comes of age or have heirs of her body lawfully begotten then I
give & bequeath my laud in England which by my will I have given to her,
unto my son John Washington & his heirs & the psonall estate which I
have given to her I give & bequeath the same unto my s d daughter Ann
Washington & her heirs forever. Item I do hereby make & ordain my
loving wife Jane Washington Executrix of this my last will & Testament
to see it performed & I do hereby make & appoint my dear and loveing
brother Coll°. John Washington & my loveing friend Thomas Hawkins in
case of the death or neglect of my Executrix to be the overseers & guard-
ians of my children untill they come of age to the truth whereof I have
hereunto sett my hand & seal this 27 of September 1G75.

Lawrence Washington [Seal.]
Signed Sealed & declared to be his last will & testament
in the presence of us

Cornelius Wood

John B. Barron

Henry Sandy Jun r .
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82 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

A Codicill of the last will & Testament of Lawrence Washington annexed
to his will & made September 27 th 1075. Item my will is that my part of
the land I now live upon which became due to me by marriage of my wife
I leave it wholly & solely to her disposal after my decease as witness my
hand the day & year above written.

Lawrence Washington [Seal.]

Signed Sealed & declared to be a codicil of my last will & testament
in the presence of us

Cornelius Wood
Henry Sandy Jun r .

The above named Henry Sandy Jun r aged 17 years or thereab*' sworo
& examined saith that he did see the above named Lawrence Washington
sign seale & publish the above mentioned to be his last will & testament &
that he was in perfect sense and memory at the signing sealing & publish-
ing thereof to the best of your deponents judgement. Henry Sandy.

luratus est Henricus Sandy in Cur. Com. Rapp ac
Sexto, die Janu'y An . 1677.

g Sacrm 1 p 1 probat d et recordat 1 "

TestEdni* Crask Clk. Co.
A Copy Teste James Roy Micou Clk.

Oct. 25, 1873. Essex Co., Va.

[Rapac Co. from 1653 to '92 was on either side of the Rapac River, extending
for some miles up to the falls above Fredericksburgh.

Col. John Washington settled on the Potomac, Westm'd Co. (.Washington
Parish) ; his brother Lawrence, says Meade, may have settled at first on the
same river and afterwards have located on the Rappahannock river, in the
county of the same name (Littleburne Parish), — not so very far off, as neither
parish was over five miles wide.

1686, Aug. 2. — John Washington, master of sloop Two Sisters, having import-
ed some brandy which had not been landed in England, had informa 1 " lodged
against him in Co. of Adm., for viola tn of navigation laws. — Col. Doe. of N. Y.,
xxxiv. p. 40.

Robert Washington writes Congress, from Williamsburgh, Va., 20 July, 1775,
offering his services and speaks of his experience obtained on the Continent
during the last war. — Am. Arch. S. iv. ; vol. ii. 1750.

I cannot find his name on the British Army Lists. I. J. Greenwood.

Mr. William John Potts, of Camden. N. J., in the K>ttinn, Nov. 28, 18«*>,
states that in 187-1 he discovered in the index of the Surrogate's oltice in Charles-
ton, S. C, an entry of the will or letters of administration f>f John \\ Isl-
ington, the date of which he and one of the officials supposed to he a bo tt
1680. The early wills were in such confusion that In did not attempt to find the
original. The editor of the Register wrote to Mr. Langdon Cheves, of
Charleston, on this subject, and he replied Dec. 12, 1889 :

" I acknowledged in my last your letter in regard to administration on
goods of John Washington mentioned in the Nation of Nov. 28 (which 1 had
not seeu), as in the Probate Court here. 1 went at once to the Probate Court
and found the entry in the old index.* But have neither then nor since been
able to find anything more either there or among my own memoranda. All the
early original papers were burnt in Columbia. The only early records now in
the Probate Court are some of the Record Rooks ; they are unindexed (except for
a table of contents), but my mem" include a pretty complete index of names up to
about 1700. And I do not think any record of the adm'n now exists in that
office. A good many of the old records are in the State House at Columbia, but
they are almost without indices & not very accessible.

* * " Washington, John, Inv'ty, F. 43."

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 83

There are two of the old Indices, one evidently copied from the other. They
are bare lists of names with the letter & number indicating the Box or bundle in
which the papers relating to that person's estate were hied and their position in
that bundle. The letters on the bundles indicate in a very vague and uncertain
way their dates ; the packages were evidently put up not very long ago, and with
no regard to date, except that papers that had been together, to some degree were
fcept so. Frequently the will and inventory are widely separated. I think the
date 1C80 far too early (though there is no reason why a 1680 will might not be
in any one of the earlier " single letter " bundles. After entering on the double
letters, ' 2 A 8 ' ' 2 B s ' &c. the papers run in more regular order.) I judge that
the administration on John Washington's estate was granted between 1710 and
1715, probably about 1711. The Record Book for that time is missing."

Mr. William Francis Cregar of Annapolis, Md., has sent me a list of fourteen
persons by the name of Tope, who settled in Maryland between the years 1634
and 1683. "Francis Pope," he writes, "was the first to arrive and settled in
that part of Maryland which afterwards became Charles County. Nathaniel
Pope and wife arrived in Maryland prior to 1648. Settlers on both the Virginia
and Maryland banks of the Potomac frequently crossed the river. — Editor.

Records of Charles City County Court. — " Robert Washington of Wapping in
y< parish of Stepney and Soin,[?] Middlesex, Mariner, appoints M r Pearson his
attorney; mentions bonds, bills, tobaccos, sugars, houses, chattels, sums of
money. 29 July, 1660. Proved at a Court held 3 Dec. lG6i).

Records of General Court, James City County. — At a court held 12 Oct. 1675.
" Edward Washington indicted for murthering W m Norcott was found by the
petty jury to be guilty of manslaughter, for which he was burnt in the hand." —
R. A. Bkock.]

Before these notes are closed let me say that I have in my collections
numerous Washington notes, which I have not published as they do not
seem to relate to this especial line. Henry F. Waters.

John Oxenbridge, preacher of the word of God in Coventry and late
minister of Southam in the County of Warwick, 18 September 1 G 17, proved
2 June 1 CI 8.

Whereas Mary Oxenbridge my well beloved wife is stated in the con-
veyance of my house and garden with the appertenances in Bishopsgate
Street in Coventry and joined purchaser with me in the same house my will
and desire is that the same house and garden with the appurtenances may
fully and lawfully be assured and confirmed to my said wife so that she may
hold and peaceably enjoy the same as her fee simple for term of her life. —
then after her decease the inheritance and the fee simple of the same &c,
according to the last will anil testament of my daughter Gilbie deceased,
niay come as of special right to the four daughters now living of my said
daughter Gilbie &c. To my said wife all my brass and all my plate and
pewter, linen, beddings, and all things thereunto belonging with all other
implements and utensils whatsoever belonging to the household except
those implements which are named and set down in an Inventory and now
remaining in the said house in Bishopsgate Street, all which were bought
with the house and so not to be removed &c. To my wife also such and so
niany of my English books as she shall make choice of. All the rest of my
said books I do give to ray son Daniel Oxenbridge. Whereas my said son
Daniel by an accompt under his hand doth now stand indebted unto me in
the sum of six score pounds and upward &c. I do give to his virtuous
mother my beloved wife the just sum of six score pounds, to be paid unto
her by my said son within four years after my decease, i. e. thirty pounds a

84 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

year. All other debts of ray son Daniel, over and above the said sum, I
do give to my said son and absolutely remit and free him from being charged
with the same forever hereafter. To the poor of the parish of Southara in
the County of Warwick twenty shillings within three months &c. To the
poor almsmen of Bahlake and their nurse eleven shillings &c*, i. e. to
each a shilling apiece. To Mope Gellibrand my grand child a piece of plate
worth in value four nobles or thereabouts. What my childrens' children
and my great grand children shall have 1 leave it to the discretion of my
said wife.

All the rest to my wife Mary Oxenbridge, and I make her the sole
executrix. The overseers to be my son Daniel Oxenbridge and Oliver
Bowls. Wit: James Cranford, John. Pole. Meade, 65.

Daniel Oxenbridge of London, Doctor of Physick, 21 December 1G41,
proved 12 September 1642. To my son Clement Oxenbridge, during the
term of his natural life, the annual sum of twenty pounds, to be paid at four
feasts or terms in the year, i. e. at the Feast of the Annunciation of the
Virgin Mary, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, St. Michael the Arch-
angel and the Birth of our Saviour Christ, by equal portions and to be
issuing, during the joint lives of my wife and my said son, out of my lands
and tenements in the parishes of St. Stephen, Colman Street, London, and
Brodericke in the County of Northumberland, and after my wife's decease
then to be issuing out of my said lands and tenements only in the parish of
St Stephen, Colman Street. These (latter) tenements &c. I give (charged
with the said annual sum &c) unto Katherine my well beloved wife, during
the term of her natural life, and after her decease to my son John Oxen-
bridge and his heirs for ever. All my lands at Brodericke &c (charged as
above) I give to my wife Katherine &c, then to my son Daniel Oxen-
bridge and his heirs forever.

I give and devise unto my said son John and his heirs for ever all my
lands in the Sommer Islands. To my wife the messuage or tenemeut
wherein I now dwell, with the appurtenances, situate in St Sythes Lane in
London, during so long time of my lease and term therein as she shall hap-
pen to live. After her decease the remainder of the lease to my son
Daniel. To sou Daniel all my part and share in the Tynne Farm, he to
pay and discharge the sum of three hundred pounds for which I stand bound
unto my son-in-law M r Edniond Hunt for his wife's portion. I give to my
daughter Langhorne ten pounds and to my grand child Daniel Langhorne
forty pounds, and to all the rest of my son and daughter Langhorne's chil-
dren live pounds apiece. To my daughter Fowler ten pounds and to her
daughter Katherine ten pounds. Item I give to my cousin [sic) Item I
give to my daughter Cockroft ten pounds and to her three children five
pounds apiece.

My wife Katherine and son Daniel to be co-executors. My brother Sir
Job llarby and my three sons-in-law William Langhorne, John Fowler
and Caleb Cockroft to be overseers and to receive five pounds apiece.

To Robert Bincks twenty shillings. To my late old servant Thomas
Shawe twenty shillings. To the widow Clarke twenty shillings, To my
kinsman Thomas Clarke twenty shillings. To my cousin Iloare's wife
twenty shillings. To my servants Mary Hart, Mary Hart and my man
William twenty shillings apiece. To my well beloved sister the lady llarby
my best book in my study which she shall make choice of. The rest to my
two executors.

Wit : Isaac Justin, Ric : Preice Scr.

I-

1800.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 85

The above will was proved by Katherine Oxenbridge the widow of the
deceased, power reserved for the other executor to take out letters.

Campbell, 110.

KATiiEitiNE Oxenbridge, 25 March 1651, proved 5 November 1651.
To my son John Oxenbridge two hundred pounds and to his children fifty
pounds. To my daughter Humes children two hundred pounds, they having
most need, and to her the fifty pounds in my brother Sir Job's (hands) the
interest of it to Sir Job's children to buy them rings to remember me by.
To my daughter Phillips daughter Betty forty pounds, to her son Daniel
forty pounds, neither of them being sure of any portion. To my son Clement
two hundred pounds when all is discharged, to his wife the money that her
brother has recovered for me. To my son Thorn's wife my suit of damask ;
it is marked with C. O.

I give to the Plantation of New England Ten pounds for to buy books
for the Indians to learn to read. To my daughter S l John's and my daugh-
ter Langton thirty shillings apiece to buy them rings withall. To my
daughter Hunt my ring that is set with pearls and all my own wearing
clothes. I give twenty shillings apiece to my cousins Conyers, William,
Katherine, Dorcas and Thomas.

My sons John and Clement to be executors and Daniel Phillips to be
overseer. I give twenty shillings apiece to all my cousins Emitt Darell.

John Oxenbridge renounced executorship. Grey, 220.

[We have here the will of John Oxenbridge, " a graduate of Oxford in 1572,
and a famous Puritan preacher;" that of his son Daniel, " a graduate of Christ
Church, Oxford, and a physician of high standing at Daventry," and London;
and that of Daniel's wife Katherine, a " daughter of Clement Throgmorton
of Hasley, third son of Sir George JThrogmorton of Loughton (the family
being patrons of Southam) and so descended from Edward III." (Ellis's His-
tory of First Church of Boston, page 125-G). John was the grandfather and
Daniel and Katherine were the parents of Rev. John Oxenbridire. pastor of the
First Church, Boston, Mass., from April 10, 1G70, till his death Dec. 28. 1071.

Rev. John Oxenbridge was born at Daventry, co. Northampton; "matricu-
lated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 20 June, 1G23, in his 18th year; after was of
Magdalen Hall, and continued there a tutor some time, but disquieted with
the increased stringency of church ceremonies he went, 1634, to Bermuda and
preached, in a few years went home again, but being ejected on the act of
uniformity, 10r,2, took departure for Surinam; thence in short time to Barba-
dos, and in 1669 came hither." (Savage's Gen. Diet. vol. 3. p 326. See :iKo
Mather's Magnalia, ed. ]8t',\. vol. 1, p. 597 ; Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial,
ed. 1802, vol. 1, }>. !",".»; Wood's Athena; OxMiiensN: F.mer^»n'«* and Ellis's
histories of First Church Boston.) Ellis refers to \V. I). Cooper's -ketch of
the Oxenbridges of Sussex and Boston. Mass. London, I860. —Editor.
^ The will of John Oxenbridge, proved Jan. 9. 1674-5, is on file at the Suilblk
Probate office, and is recorded Lib. vi. fol. 7o. The following is an abstract
made from the original will :

" Boston in New Engl. y e 12 th day of y c first month
in y e year 1673-4.
. I John Oxenbridge a sorry man, lesse then y e least of all y e mercies and ser-
vants of Christ am y° most weake and worthlesse creature, yet have I bene by y e
Lord's hand (even a strong hand upon me) separated to stand before his face
in y« ministry of y<-' Gospel, and in severall places as Barmudas, Great Yarmouth,
Beverly, Barwick, Bristol, Eton, and AVindsor have 1 bene led forth in y' work,
and in some measure my Lord hath owned me graciously in all these places.
Afterw ch having had my portion w th others of more weight and worth (who
had prophecied "in sackcloth) to be layd aside from this honorable work in
England. Wherfore I went forth as far as Sercnam in desire and hope of
nerving Christ there, and there 1 was assaying so to do from 62 at my own great
charge in many hazards of my own life, and w th the loss of very dear relations.
VOL. XLIV. 8*

g(5 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

After those parts were seized by y° Dutch and for a while reseized for y° Eng-
lish by S r John Harman w th hiiu I went thence to Barbados, and after fruitlesse
essays there also (as to publick work) I went in S9. to New England, where now
being comfortably fixed by Poynting providences in y e first Church of Boston as
pastor thereof, and so in present appearance a period being put to my wasting
and weary wandrings and in free mercy receiving an allowance for them 1
Judge it reasonable to set my soul and house in order."

Daughter Bathshuah Scot for my Executrix. And this I doe in y e sense I have
of her naturall affection to me nourishing now at y c last (she showing more
Kindeness in y c latter end then in y e beginning) and likewise in confidence of
her fidelity to her Sister Theodora, and in all other betrustments. For my
Overseers the Honored John Leverett Esq. y e lleverend James Alleiu, aud M r
Humphry Davie.

To my wife Susanna in lieu of all thirds or Dowry, £50 in New England coyn;
one bed and bedstead w th curtains ; what plate and houshold stuff doth remain
of what she had in her former widow hood. Also, what gold rings she hath of
mine, not otherwise disposed of, also one silver porringer, one sugar dish, one
silver taster w th a funnell, one sweet-meat spoon. Likewise (besides y e bookes
she had in her former widow hood) Kogers on Judges and his seaven Treatises,
also Thom. Goodwin his child of light. And this small portion of my ruined
estate I desire and hope she will accept w th love and satisfaction, as being more
then she had from her former husband, m r Abbot, and more then before marriage
w" 1 me was expected or promised, for then she did say she had enough for us
both, when by sore losses my estate was much impaired. And I would think in
equity she will consider y i her Annuity of one hundred a veer will be more then I
can leave to my children, and more then she was willing to leave them or me in
case of my surviving, for she was not willing to follow y° advise of her chiefest
friend M r Thomas Parris who made y e match between her and me, and he and
others did advise to sell her Annuity aud purchase in N. E. Winch if she had
done and cast her estate with mine, it had bene a reasonable thing for her to
expect and have y c thirds of mine, but she refusing this, I had not in case of
surviving bene one penny y e better for her estate by any thing left to ine or
mine. Howsoever she hath in ordinary providence (under which we must sett
down) she hath sufficient and abundant provision for her, if it be better managed
then in her former widowhood, and y* it may be so I give her in love this faithfull
advise till my sou Scot's arrivall to make M r Humphry Davie her Atturney for
y e procuring her Annuity, and receive m ris Kingesmill to her friendly and faithfull
care as being more experienced and prudent to order affairs and write letters
and accounts for her. To m ris Kingsmill 3 pound out of my charity bag y e rest
in y e bag to be disposed to ye most necessitous brethren aud sisters of y e church
by y e Deacons thereof. To my daughter Bathshuah Scot my dwelling house in
Boston as it is put into my pow T er by Will to doe by Deed of Aug, 22, 1G7.3, she
allow her sister Theodora live pound yeerely during y e life of Bathshuah ; in ease
Bathshuah die without issue surviving, then y e reversion to Theodora, she pay-
ing fifty pound as a Legacy to y e first Church of Boston ; in case Theodora
decease without issue, the fifty pound inheritance of the house to be to y c first
church in Boston for y- use of y c pastor or teacher for y e time being. To
daughter Bathshuah my scale ring, my sugar boxe w th my armes, a fruit dish
marked with my own and her Mothers name, also one beaker and 12 spoones so
marked, one dish marked D. O. one large tankard marked with my armes, one
small tankard marked M. O., one silver porringer, one large salt sellar, 1 wine
cup, 1 child's spoon w ch was mine in my infancy, 1 silver pensill w" 1 seal Iyon,
one locket, cornelian ring, one ring beset w th blew specks.

To daughter Theodora all my Tenements in White's ally in Coleman street,
London, y e writings whereof were left by me with M r Kemp of Lombard street,
w ch houses did formerly yield £35, but ye last lease since y e fire doth airree to
£18, and this in M r John Loder's hand in London, and I desire my Executrix
with ye help of my brother Loder y l Theodora upon y e death of her Grandfather
may have her right of yManel in Kent about £10 y e yeer, y e writing whereof was
left by M r Joseph Caryll w th my brother Loder, as also her right in a debt from
M r Killingworth, w ch was originally £400, and what other goods or estate w ch
fall to her from her Grandfather.

To daughter Theodora what goods remain of them she brought from England,
and also y c value of a fourth part of my estate remaining after debts and

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legacies payd, only if my estate in Serenam arise to anything y* she have a
young Nigro or two as my Executrix shall think litt, and y e 4 th part aforsayd to
I be Judg'd by my Overseers.

To Theodora my gilt watch, my gold thimble and whistle, my gold ring w ,h
her name in it, my green emerauld ring w th diamond sparks, a wraught cup w th

I its covering marked w th my own and her mother's name, one locket, one silver

inkhorn marked E. W. one wranglit plate w th my own and her mother's arraes,
also one caudle cup and cover, one large tankard, one silver porringer all marked
w th Ii° spoon marked M. II. 1 forked spoon 1 p' of sizers w th silver, 1 cornelian
ring, one cornelian bracelet, 1 cristall piece.

To m r Daniel Hinchman and his eldest daughter, each of them a ring.

To my Sou Richard Scot a diamond ring, one of them in M r Humphry Davie
his hand.

To each of my surviving Sisters twenty shillings in gold to buy a ring w th my
name in it, and to my sister Ingoldesly I forgive two thirds of what is due to
me by bond; and y e like I doe to my Brother Clement Oxenbridge in a bond of
£50, and give him a ring as to my Sisters.

To my brother Loder and his wife each a gold ring, and to him, also, Augustin's
epitome, and y c platts were left w th m r Shirley at y e Pelliean in litle Brittain. To
m r George Perycr a gold ring. To each of my Overseers a gold ring; to John
Leverett my French history, to m r James Allein Kavanell in*2 volumes, do. in*
Humphry Davie Purchas pilgrim, and to his wife my white amethyst ring. To
y e Elders and Deacons of y e first church of Boston twenty pound for y 8 use of
yt Church.

To my Nigro maid servant Mary fifty shillings to be layd out as my Executrix
shall see most for y e good of y c sayd Mary ; and to my Nigro boy ten shillings
as she sees meet.

To ye publick Library in Boston or elsewhere as my Executrix and Overseers
shall judge best Augustins workes in G volumes, y c Centuries in 8 volumes, y e
Catalogue of Oxford library Tritemius catalogue of ecclesiastic writers. Also
Parcus workes in 2 volumes, Pineda upon Job in 2 volumes, Euclids geometry,
Willet on Leviticus, Davenant on y e Collosians, Pembles workes, Osiander epit
of Centurys in 2 vol.

I leave my Manuscripts to be disposed of by my executrix w th y e advise of my
overseers, and in particular y e Plea for y c Dumb Indian, and Colonies to m r Eliot
or any other they shall see meet.

In presence of John Oxenbridge.

Julines Ilcring
Ita attest p'
Robert Howard not. publ. Massachusitt Colonie novae Angliae.

M r Robert Howard appearing before Edward Tyng & Major Thomas Clarke
Esq ra 9th j an . 74 ma de oath &c.

Attests Freegrace Bend all Record 1 ".

Inventory of estate of M r Jn° Oxenbridge.
Taken Jan. 5. 1674-, by Anthony Stoddard, Edward Hutchinson, sen r . Amt.
£1715. 14. 8, including his Dwelling house, orchard, Garden, &c. £550. Lib. v. 223.

Susanna Oxenbridge, of Boston, will June r>, 1095. To M r James Allen Teach-
ing officer of the first Church of Christ in Boston (of w ch I am a Member) M*
Mitchils booke on 1' Peter 5. 10. with fowre more att his choice, my Diamond
Hinge, one silver forke, two silver framed Spectacles. To his Wife M" Sarah
Allen, my blacke Prunella Gowne and petticoate, Two Agate Knives, best Silke
Stockins and gart rs , Scarlett Coloured Hood, long Silke Girdle, Balsome ball,
golden bodkin, one Gold Ringe. To his daughter Hannah and his Son James,
I give each of them a gold Ringe, of them I used to weare. To M r Joshua
Moodey, a ring, a paire of my Silke stockings and fowre bookes such as my Ex-
ecute agree upon. To the wife of sd M r Moodey, my gold Chain I weare about
my Necke, my Plush gowne, a Ring & a paire of Silk Stockings, if any left. To
| M r Sarauell Parris a silver pottinger, and ten pounds, and to his two Eldest

children live pounds apeice in money. To M r Peter Thatcher, the piece of gold I
Wear about my Neck ; to him and his wife and his two eldest children, live pounds
apiece in money. To M rs Sarah Davie of Hartford, my Cloth Gowne lined with
Lutestring, ami black Cloth petticoat belonging to it, my little Bible with Silver
Clasps and Case, finest tufted Holland petticoat and Enameled Ring. To M"

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Jerusha Saltonstall and M rs Elizabeth Davie, I give each of them, ailing. To
M r » Elizabeth Taylor, daught r to M r Humphry Davie, my Gold Scale, :i Silver
forke and a Ring. To M r John Davie, a good booke. To M 1 * 8 Bellingham, linr-
roughs of Contentment. To M r James Allen, M r Joshua Moodey, M r Increase
Mather, M r Samuell Willard,JVI r Cotton Mather, or those of them that shall be
alive att my decease, all the money in a Round painted box, when filled, to bee
equally divided among them. To M r Henry Deering, live pounds: M 1 Peter
Butler and his wife, three pounds to buy them Rings. To M ra Hodges, I L r ive
M r Mathew Medes booke, and five pounds money. To the Widows, Arraitage,
Carf and Dinsdale, forty shillings a peice. To Mehetable Hinkely, formerly
my servant, I give my changeable silke petticoat, morning wasteeoate, white
Dimity wasteeoate, two paire of my stockins, one black hood. To my servant
mayde, twenty shillings. To my kinsman Isaack Taylor, my Geneva Bible, and
my Silver box w th a watch in it. To my kinswoman Mary Taylour, my great
Bible and greate Wedding IJinge. To my kinswoman Sarah Gent, my plain blew
Bible, and all my Wearing Cloths, with all my Linnen Household goods, bedding,
plate not disposed of. Appoint M 1 ' James Allen, M r Peter Timelier, Mr Pet*
Butler joynt Executors; as a token of my Love I give to Each, Twenty pound
apeice. June G, 1095. Ezekiel Cheever, Paul Symons, Kath. Welsteed.

[In a Codicil, made Dec. 30, 1695, "finding a necessity of being supported by my
Executors therein named, for want of the Incomes of my Estate," she provides,
that if there be a sufficient portion of her estate left at her decease, the legacies
are to be paid, if otherwise, the aforesaid Legacies, so given, to be utterly null
and void.]

Will proved March 25, 1G0G. Abstract made from the original on tile. It
is recorded Bk. xi. folio 145. Inventory rendered March 24, 1695-6. Joseph
Bridgham, Tho. Clarke, Apprizers. Proved, Boston, April 9, 1G9G. Jurat Cor.
W m Stoughton. — William B. Tjrask.]

"William Wiiittingham, late of Boston in Massachusetts Colony in
New England, gentleman, 25 March 1G72, proved 15 April 1G72. To my
eldest son Richard Wiiittingham, to him and his heirs forever,one house, barn,
mill house and appurtenances thereto belonging, with twenty acres of arable
land, eighty four acres and a quarter of an acre of pasture, in the tenure and
occupation of William Pakey &c. in the town of Suttcrton, in the parts of
Holland in the County of Lincoln. To my son William one dwelling house,
barn and appurtenances &c. witli two and twenty acres of pasture, two acres
and a quarter of arable land, eighteen acres of marsh, now in the tenure &c.
of John Trigg &c.; also one cottage and barn, with four acres and a half of
pasture and one acre of arable land, in the tenure &c. of Thomas Bayly &c,
all lying and being in Suttertori. To my daughter Marie one messuage, or
tenement, <&.c. with nine acres of pasture and six acres of arable land in tho
tenure &c. of John Wilson &c. with three acres of arable land bite it: the
tenure of Master Baker &c. To my daughter Elizabeth vuc messuage &c,
with eight acres and a half acre of pasture and five acres of arable hind iu
the tenure <&c. of John Gidnew with two acres of pasture in the tenure of
George Ledman ; also one cottage and one acre in the tenure of John Baker,
— in Sutterton. To my daughter Martha six acres and a half acre of
pasture late in the tenure of William Walker, one cottage and two acres of
pasture late in the tenure of Richard Gunn, in Sutterton. All these at
their ages of twenty years or days of marriage.

My will and pleasure is that that one hundred and sixty-three pounds due
unto my uncle Nathaniel Hubbert, of London, be paid out of the rents ami
products of the wood and timber standing on the land aforesaid. Reference
is made to a bond bearing date 25 March 1GG7 wherein brother Richard
Whittingham, gentleman, stands jointly bound with my said uncle unto
Thomas Harris, of the Inner Temple, London, Esq., in the sum of seven hun-
dred pounds for the payment of three hundred and fifty pounds. My debts in

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London, contracted upon my particular account, or on account of my brother-
in-law John Clarke, of Boston in New England, gentleman, to be paid out
of the rents &c. of the said lands; together with the annuity due unto my
mother, Mistress Martha Eire, for her natural life and to bring up my afore-
said children, till they come to their respective ages &o. All my estate in
company with M r James Whetcombe, of Boston in New England, mer-
chant, to be sold for ready money &e. To my brother John Clarke of
Boston, gentleman, all his proportion of debts contracted by us in company,
by me already paid and ordered to be paid, and all my right, title and interest
of and in the goods and chattels given to me by my father's will. To James
"Whetcombe of Boston aforesaid, gentleman, twenty pounds. To my cousins
Mary Hubbert and Anne Ilubbert, daughters of my said uncle Ilubbert,
five pounds each, to buy them rings. My father-in-law John Laurence of
New York in America, gentleman, William Ilubbert, of Ipswich in New
England, my said uncle Nathaniel Ilubbert, of London, gentleman, and
John Lewin of London, Esq., to be executors.

Wit: Ben: Downe, Evan Jones, Elizabeth Pogson.

Proved by Nathaniel Ilubbert, one of the executors, power reserved for
the others. 'Proved 26 March 1G78, by William Ilubbert, another of the
executors, power reserved for Johu Laurence & John Lewim

Eure, 146.

Sententia pro valore Testamenti Gulielmi Whittingham nuper de Mass-
chutes Colonii in Novo Anjdia sed infra parochiam Sanctae Marias Lo
Savoy in Comitatu Middlesexia decedentis habentis dum vixit et mortis sua?
tempore bona jura sive credita in diversis diocaisibus sive peculiaribus
jurisdictionibus sufficicentis ad fundend jurisdictione in curiae Prerogative
Cantuariensis pnedicta. — Quod coram nobis in judicio inter Nathanielem
Hubbert unum executorum in dicto Testamento sive ultima voluntate ante
dicti defuncti nominatura partem hujusmodi negotium promoventem ex una
et Martham Eyre mat rem naturalem et legitimum et Kichardum Whitting-
ham Mariam Whittingham Elizabetham Whittingham et Martham Whitting-
ham liberos uaturales et legitimos in specie ac omnes et singulos alios
quoscunq' etc. etc., partes contra quas idem negotium promovetur partibus
ex altera etc. etc., Leeta lata et promulgata fuit ha?c sententia ditlinitiva
Secundo die juridico post ffestum sive diem Sancti Andreas Apostoli die
Martis tertio die Decembris Anno Domini Mittimo sexceutesimo septuage-
simo Secundo etc. etc. Eure, 157.

[See wills of William and Richard Whittingham, and Mr. Brown's annotations
on them, in the Register, vol. 39, pp. 170-3. — Editor.

As to this William Whittingham, of Boston, this will gives us little new in-
formation. Savage has already said that he was the son of John W. of Ipswich,
by his wife Martha, sister of Rev. William Hubbard; that he married Mary. dau.
of John Laurence of Ipswich and New York, and that tradition said that he died
in London. We also know that he had a brother Richard who was thought to
have settled in England, and sons Richard and William, daughters Mary, Martha
and Elizabeth.

In the Register, xi. 20, is an obituary notice of this Mrs. Mary Clark, who
had married secondly, Gov. Gurdon Saltonstall, from the N. E. Weekly Journal
of 1730. In the Register, vol. 27, pp. 135-139, and vol. 34, p. 34, Mrs. Pall has
made some criticisms, which seem to be in part well-founded. But T cannot
agree with all her surmises. It seems to be accepted that Martha, daughter of
John Whittingham and sister of William, the testator, married Dr. John Clark
of Boston, son of Dr. John and Martha (Saltonstall) Clark. This second Dr.
John, who died in 1(51)0, was the father of lion. John, William and Samuel. lie
Is of course the brother-in-law of John Clark mentioned in William Whittingham's

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will. Mrs. Dall says that this William Clark, brother of Hon. John C, married
his first cousin, Mary, daughter of VVitttam Whittingham ; but she gives no
authority. Savage says that William, brother of Hon. .John (Mark, was born in
1070 and was a representative from Boston in 1720-21 and 17L'5. But at all
events he was not the William who married Mary Whittingham, for the will of
this last named William was proved in 1710, and Boston records show that he
died July 2G, 1710, aged G2. It is merely a coincidence of names: not so re-
markable, when we consider how very many Clarks there were in Boston at that
date, all of different families.

As to the remoter pedigree of these Whittinghams, nothing is yet certain.
The obituary of 1780 says John was the posthumous son of Baruch W.. who
was son of William W., the famous Dean of Durham. Mrs. Dall (Kegister,
xxxiv. 35) shows that the family tradition is probably right, in so far that John
Whittingham was the son of Baruch W. of Southerton, who was the son of
a William W. of the same, but that this William was not the Dean of Durham.
The lady is of course wrong in tracing Richard Clarke (Copley's father-in-law)
to a Francis Clark, as his father was William, nephew of another William C,
from the west of England, as will hereafter be shown. — W. IL. Whitmoius.]

John Snooke of the parish of St. Clements Danes, citizen & merchant
taylor of Loudon, 17 August 1GG5, proved 1 September 1665. My friend
M r William Higginson, in Blackemore Street, in the parish aforesaid, to be
one of my executors and my friend M r Ralph Sedgwick, living in Paul's
parish, in Covet Garden, the other. What legacies I do give away in
money to be paid out of Sir John PawlettV one hundred and fifty nine
pounds that he owes me, for the which and for my better security, he hath
made over to me his plantation in Virginia called Westover, nigh the
James River, in the occupation of Captain Otho Southcott, as by the In-
denture more plainly doth appear. To my daughter in law, Mary Norrice,
widow, in Aldersgate Street, within the first court on the left hand, my
biben and my "selde" ring which was her father's which her mother gave
me, and my book the which the leaves are guilt. To her daughter Hetty
ten pounds. To my unkind dafter Eli noise Hodgkins twenty shillings, to
buy her a ring, she living with my cousin M r Robert Jacob, at Bow. To
his daughters, each of them &c. Cousin Robert Snooke, in Salisbury, shoe-
maker. Hyde, 103.

Richard Snooke, of Southill, in the county of Somerset, in his will,
bearing date 14 July, 18 th Charles, proved 20 January 1642, mentions
cousin Robert Snooke, brother John Snooke and others. Crane. 2.

[ l Capt. Thomas Pawlett was the Burgess for " Argal's Guifte," Virginia, in
1610, and a member of the Colonial Council in 1621. He was granted 2000 acres
of laud in Charles City county, near that of Capt. Perry, and west of Berkeley,
January 15, LG37, based on the " personal adventure " of himself, his brother
Chidiock Pawlett and other "head rights." This ^rant included the noted seat
" Westover." Pawlett died in 1G43, and bequeathed the land to his brother. Sir
John Pawlett, who sold it in 1G6G to Theodrick Bland for £175 sterling. The
latter bequeathed it to his eldest son Theodrick, who admitted into joint tenancy,
his brother Richard, They sold it in 1688 to Colonel William Byrcl, the first
of the name and family in Virginia, for the consideration of £800 sterling and
10,000 pounds of tobacco and casks. The present building at " Westover " was
erected by Col. William Byrd, the second of the name in Virginia. The seat
is at present owned and occupied by Major Augustus If. Drewry. A church
(of which a grave-yard with tombs indicates the site) and the county buildings
near the banks of .lames river, remained at " Westover" until sometime in the
18th century. Sir John Pawlett was the grandson of Sir Amias Powlett, of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and a zealous Royalist. He became Baron Pawlett,
of Hinton, St. George, and died 20th March, 1G49. He was the ancestor of the
Lords Powlett. Another of the name of Pawlett appears in the early annals of

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Virginia. Robert Pawlett was a minister at Martin's) Hundred. He was also a
physician aud surgeon. He was appointed a member of the Couueil iu 1G21,
but did not accept. — R. A. Brock, Richmond, F«.]

John Allsopp of Bonsall in the County of Derby, gentleman, 16 January,
1643, proved 10 February 164G. To be buried in the church at Allsopp
in the Dale. To my dear mother Temperance Ilopkines fifty pounds which
is now remaining in the hands of Anthony Allsopp my eldest brother, as by
bond may appear, if she be- living: if in case she be dead then the said fifty
pounds to go to my two brothers and sister now living in New England,
equally to be divided amongst them or the survivor or survivors of them.
To my sister Jane Jackson now wife to M r Roger Jackson of Ashburne in
the said County of Derby, gentleman, the like sum of fifty pounds, and also
five pounds to be paid by John Gretrax of Bonsall aforesaid the first day of
May next ensuing the date hereof. To my grandmother M rs Jane Allsopp
twenty shillings to buy her a ring withall ; and likewise I give and bequeath
to my loving aunt M r3 Dorothy Hopkinson of Bonsall aforesaid widow all
my "lead oare" which I have now lying at Bonsall. To my brother M r
Anthony Allsopp of Allsopp in the Dale aforesaid the sura of ten shillings.
For all the rest of my goods and debts now owing which came by my wife
Mary Allsopp 1 give and bequeath unto my said loving wife, after my funeral
expenses, debts and legacies being paid and discharged, so long as she shall
keep herself unmarried or else she do marry with the good liking aud consent
of my executors and Jane Allsopp my grandmother. And if in case that she
do marry without the full consent and good liking of my executors and grand-
mother aforesaid then all the said goods and debts which came by my said
wife shall be and remain to said two brothers and sister now living in New
England aforesaid.

M r Roger Jackson of Ashborne aforesaid, gentleman, and my said loving
Aunt M rs Dorothy Hopkinson to be full executors.

Wit. Edward Fowler, William Fletcher, John Allen's mark, Richard^
Bullock. Fines, 34.

Josias Alsop, clerk, 12 August 1G66, pro: 9 Oct 16GG. I desire to be
buried in St. Clement's Eastcheape Church if I die in London or near it.
Of my temporal estate I give two hundred pounds to M rs Elizabeth Rosseter,
my sister in New England, or to her children if she be dead. I give to my
brother M r Timothy AUop's children fifty pounds. I give to M r Richard
Vigures of Law Litton in Cornwall five pounds, to be bestowed u\<on a
piece of plate and to be sent to him or to any of his children or grand-
children if alive. I give to the poor of Norton Fitz-warren in Somerset-
shire twenty pounds, to the poor of St. Clement's Eastcheape, London, ten
pounds, to be distributed by my very good friends there. 1 give to Christ's
I College Library in Cambridge ten pounds to be sent thither privately. I

give to M r Thomas Waplewicke, merchant tailor, in Warwick Lane Lon-
don, or to his wife, all my clothes, woollen, linen, silk, leather. And I com-
mit to his trust sixty pounds, to be delivered to such poor persons as are
named particularly in a letter which will be brought to him written with
mine own hand. I give to Doctor Christopher Shute Walton's Hebrew
Bible. And I commit to the said Doctor Shute and to mine executor M r
John Prestwood all my other books and papers whatsoever, to be thus dis-
posed of: — first 1 will that all my papers or paper books marked with this
like sign of the Cross (►!«) be cast unto the tire and consumed to ashes
without suffering any part of them to be read; when this is done I will that

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the rest of my papers and paper books, and all my other books, be locked
up in trunks or boxes and kept for Chat child of my brother Timothy
Alsop's who shall become a minister. And if neither of ins sons become
ministers I will that they be given to Doctor Christopher Shute to do with
them what he pleaseth, upon this condition that he keep to himself the
printed books or sell them if he list. As for my papers and written books
I will that he promise faithfully to my executor that he will have them all
burned at his death. In this particular I expect and require that faithful-
ness of him after my death which I have found in him all my life time. I
give to M r John Prestwood, merchant, London, fifty pounds, whom I name
and make my sole executor, desiring him to bury me cheaply and privately
under a tomb stone with my name engraven on it. The remainder of mine
estate I give to children born of poor and pious parents that they may be
bound out apprentices, in which I desire that the children of Norton Fitz-
warren in Somersetshire, if there be any poor ones, may be preferred before
any other. Mico, 139.

[The following pedigree of this family, in Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire,
1662-3, is re-printed from the Genealogist, edited by Dr. Marshall, vol. 3, p. 63:
Anthoney Alsop=Jane, til. Ric. Smith

of Alsop
in y c Dale.

of Coombcbridge
in Com. Staff.

John Alsop=Temperance, fll. Will. Gilbert
I of Makhauer in Coin. Derby.

Anthony Alsop=Ellianor, fll. S r Jo. Gell
of Hopton.

John Alsop=Katharin, fll. Cope
of flens Bentley.

Arms. Sable three doves volant argent, beaks and legs gules. Crest, A dove
close argent, beak and le^s gules.

Joseph Alsopp, aged 14, and Thos. Alsopp, a«;ed 20, embarked for New Eng-
land in the spring of 1635, in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper master
(Register, vol. xiv. pp. 309 and 31-1). Mr. Savage supposes them to be brothers
(See his Gen. Diet., vol. i. p. 46 ; vol. ii. p. 528). Joseph settled at New Haven
and Thomas at Stratford. Ct. There was also a Timothy Alsop, mariner, at
New Haven, 1646. Charles J. Hoadly, A.M., of Hartford, Ct., to whom a copy
of the above wills was sent, writes me, ' v We may probably assume that Eliza-
beth Rossiter was wife of Bray (or Bryan; liossiter of Windsor and Guilford."
— Editor.]

William Fairewether, 3 July 16.53, proved 2 February 1054. To
be buried near my mother and my wife Charitie. " Whereas my wife hath
divers times freely declared her mindo and earnestlie desired and advised
me to preferr my children saying© shee would haue nothing but desired my
children might haue it. In consideration whereofe accordiuge to her desire I
haue alreadie assured unto her use the rentes in Leedes w ch I had with
her." I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Northend and to her son John
Northern!, either of them, ten pounds. To my son Thomas five pounds and
to his wife forty shillings. To my son William Fairewether my lease of
Greenthwait als Granthwait within the parish of Sutton and the forest of
Gawtrees late disforested, and all my estate and interest therein with the
appurtenances; also my close in Wigginton Lordship &c. To Isabel

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Swain son my servant fifty shillings. To Marie Wannop ten shillings. To
the servant of my sou Thomas Howse thirty shillings. To the poor of the
city twenty shillings. To the poor of the parish of Martins and Gregoriea
ten pounds. To my son Thomas' daughter Elizabeth Fairewether if she
be living at the time of my death ten pounds.

The residue to my son William Fairewether, all my houses Toff's Greene
&c. and I make him sole executor.

Wit: Abrah: Askwith «& Samuel Saire. Aylett, 3.

Michael Jobson of Brantingham, in the co. of York, gentleman, 23
August 1651, pro : -18 November 16.51. To be buried in the chancel of the
parish church of Brantingham near to my uncle Jobson. To William
Swift five pounds sixteen shillings which he is indebted to me. To my
sister Swift sixteen shillings a year during- her natural life.
Item I give to John Northend, the son of my cousin John Northern!, ten

I pounds which his father oweth me when he shall accomplish the age of one

and twenty years. To the poor of this parish ten shillings to be paid on St
Thomas' Day before Christmas next, that is to say, to the poor of Branting-
ham six shillings eight pence and to the poor of Ellerker three shillings
four pence. To my cousin Samuel Jobson five pounds to be paid him the

I three and twentieth day of August in the year of Our Lord 1052. To

Richard Thorpe the younger five shillings. To my maid Isabel Aire at
Martinmas five shillings more than her wages. To Jonathan and William
Newmarch sons of William Newmarch ten pounds apiece when they come
to the ages of one and twenty years. Lastly I make my cousin W r illiam
Newmarch and Ann Jobson my wife sole executors &c. Grey, 215.

[The wills of William Fairewether and Michael Jobson mention a family of
Northend in Yorkshire. Sutton on the Forest and Wiixgmton are both parishes
in the Wapentake of Buhner, North Riding of co. York, the former Sh miles N.
by W. from York and the latter 5 miles N. from York. The celebrated Law-
rence Sterne "was vicar of Sutton, which was in the Forest of Galtrees or
Gawtrees.

Brantingham is in the Hunsley-Beacon division of the Wapentake of Hart-
hill, East Biding of Yorkshire. Rowley, from which came Ezekiel Northend of
Massachusetts, is also in the Hunsley-Beacon division and 4 miles E. N. E. from
South Cave, which last named parish is twenty seven miles S. E. from York.
There is a chapelry of Ellesker 1$ mile S. by West from South Cave.

It is fair to suppose then that the Northends mentioned in these two wills
were of the same family as the New England emigrant. For an account of the
latter's family see Gleanings from English Kecords, &c, by Emmerton and
Waters, puplished by the Essex Institute (Salem, Mass., 1880), pp. .N5-88.

Henry F. Waters.]

Henry Isiiam of Henrico County, Virginia, 13 November 1G78, proved
5 June 1680. To my half brother Joseph Ryall forty pound* in goods,
within twelve months. To Richard Pen-in his wife, John Wilkinson his
wife, William Byrd his wife, each a gold ring of twelve shillings price.
To my honored mother Mrs. Katherine Isham one third part of my per-
sonal estate, both in Virginia and England, after the legacies above are
satisfied, and to my sister M™ Anne Isham one third part &c. I give my
plantation in Charles City County in Virginia, commonly known by the
name of Doggams &c. &c. between my two sisters, Mrs Mary Ran-
dolph and Mrs Anne Isham. I bequeath to M r William Randolph all the
rest of my estate both in Virginia and England and appoint him full
executor.

Wit : Ja : Tubb, John Wynn, Wilbert Daniel, Hugh Davis. Bath, 81.

vol. xliv. 9

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[The family of Isham, now baronets, is one of antiquity and distinction ;■
Northamptonshire, England. Henry Ishain, son of t***tqttvy Ishain, came i
Virginia and became a merchant at Bermuda Hundred; married Katheriin
widow of Joseph Royall, and died in Virginia about 107(5, leaving issue: i
Henry, the testator, who died, unmarried, in Virginia, his will having h.,
proved in Henrico county, February 1st, 1078-0, the Witnesses thereto being :, ! .
residents of Virginia; ii. Mary, married Colonel William Randolph, of "Turki
Island," the emigrant ancestor of the distinguished Virginia family of the nan
iii. Anne, married, 1085, Colonel Francis Eppes, whose probable ancestor
William Eppes or Epes came to Virginia before 1G19, and' in that year kin,
Captain Siallinger in "a private quarrel." Mrs. Anne (Isham) Eppes was th-
ancestress of John Wayles Eppes, member of Congress from Virginia, 1803-11
and 1813-15; U. S. Senator, 1817-19; died near Richmond, Va., Sept., 1823, agi •:
50 yrs. His wife Maria, daughter of Thomas 'Jefferson, died April, 1804. In
the records of Henrico Co., Va., there is a deed of date Sept. 20, 1078, from
Samuel Turke of Gaud Church, Co. of Kent, England, clothier, administrator
of Henry Richards, late of London, merchant, deceased, and of John Richards,
deceased, " brother" of Henry Richards, conveying to Henry Isham, of London,
merchant, in consideration of £140, paid, all goods, monies and tobacco debt-
in Virginia due to the said Richards, which were left by Samuel Swaan, London.
merchant, deceased, in the custody of Henry Isham the elder, merchant, late of
Virginia, deceased, father of the aforesaid Henry Isham. Witnesses: John
Ruddes [elsewhere spelled Rnds, a shipmaster], John Tubb, Lewis Conner,
William Eppes. There is also a similar deed of record dated Sept. !?:*, 1678.
It may be assumed that Henry Isham was then about to leave London fur
Virginia.

May, 1717. There is of record a deed from Mary Randolph, widow, and
Francis Epes and Anne, his wife, conveying to Joseph Royall, Jr., 71 acres in
Bermuda Hundred, which was granted to Henry Isham in 1001.

Will of Mrs. Katherine Isham, dated October 10, 1080, proved at December
term of Henrico County Court 1080. Bequeaths to grandson. William Ran-
dolph, £20 sterling; grandson Henry Randolph, Jr., grand-daughters Elizabeth
and -Mary Randolph £5 each; residue of money to two daughters Mary Randolph
and Anne, wife of Colonel Francis Eppes of Henrico county, and two silver
salt-cellars to each; to daughter Mary Randolph her wedding ring, a featherbed
and other furniture, and her best silver tankard but one; to her grandson
Joseph Royall one servant man and a small silver tankard, and to every child of
her son Joseph Royall two silver spoons; to her son Joseph Royall her best
silver tankard ; to her grandson Richard Dennis a cow and two silver spoons ; to
her grandson Isham Eppes a negro man Dick; to grandson Francis Eppes her
biggest silver tankard but one; to the child of her daughter Anne Epps, " went
withall" her large silver porringer and her great silver cup: to her daughter
Anne Eppes her seal ring, a pair of silver clasps and a silver bodkin ; to grandson
Richard Perrin, one feather bed and other furniture; to granddaughter Sanih
Royall a heifer; to granddaughters Katherine Farrar, Mary. Sarah and Anne
Perrin each two silver spoons; to daughter Sarah Wilkinson and Katherine
Perriu wearing apparel; to Iter loving friend Mary Parker dowlas and senjs
[goods for wearing apparel]; to grandson Maiden Maschall a heifer; to son
Joseph Royall all of her land. To her executors son Joseph Royall and Francis
Eppes her whole crop of corn except to buy gravestones for herself and her
deceased husband.

Richard Perrin and John Wilkinson of the abstract were evidently husband?
of the half sisters (daughters by the first marriage of his mother with Joseph
Royall) of the testator. Hugh Davis, witness, was for some time clerk oi
Henrico county.

Rev. Henry Isham Longden, St. Michael and All Angels, Northampton, has
been making investigations into the connection of the present [shams of North-
ampton and the early Ishams of Virginia, with deductions of the present
descendants in America of the latter. — R. A. Biiock.]

Tiiomas Grendon of the parish of Westover, in the County of Charles
Citv, Virginia, Gentleman, 23 February 1683-4, proved 4 April 1G8».
To my wife Mrs Sarah Grendon fifteen hundred pounds sterling out of niy

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personal estate in Virginia; if that be wanting, then to be made up of
money due to me in England; or eighty pounds per annum out of the
yearly rent of my Ileal Estate in Furtherly ats Fartherly, in the parish of
Shenton in the County of Stafford and in Hidefield in the said County.
Xo William Byrd junior, son of William Byrd Senior, of Henrico County,
in Virginia, Esq. To my godson Nathaniel Simons, son of John Symons
of London, upholsterer. To my Goddaughter Susannah Byrd, daughter of
William Byrd. To Thomas and Nathaniel Simons sons of John Simons.
To my cousin Thomas Jennings of London, merchant, son of Thomas Jen-
nings, late of London, distiller, he paying my aunt, his mother, Mrs Han-
nah Archer, now wife of Capt. William Archer of Charles City, Virginia,
ten pounds per annum. Leases granted, 2 March 1G5G, by William, Lord
Viscount Stafford and Dame Mary his wife, Henry Earle, of Kingston,
John Earle, of Thanett Island and the Hon. William Pierpoint Esq. to
my late grandfather Thomas Grendon deceased. Friends M r Robert Coo
of London, goldsmith, M r Thomas Gower of Edmington and M r Abell
Gower of Virginia, the Hon. William Byrd Esq. William Randolph of
Henrico County, Virginia, M r Arthur North and M r John Hardingof London.
Wit: Henry II arm an, Richard Williamson, John Roach (his sign) Abel
Gower. Cann, 44.

[Lieut. Col. Thomas Grendon was a legatee and probably a nephew of
Edward Grendon or Grindon, who in 1023-24 was a member of the Virginia
House of Burgesses, and who owned land across the river from Jamestown. He
was a son of Thomas Grendon of London, merchant, a burgess for "Smyth's

! Mount the other side of the water, and Hog Island" in 1G32-33, and died at sea

in 1G84-5. It is a coincidence that the Grendons, father and son, should have
married widows respectively of a father and son; Thomas Grendon, the elder,
marrying Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Steggc, Senr. of London, and Thomas
Grendon, Jr. of Virginia, Sarah, the widow of Capt. or Col. Thomas Steggc, Jr.
The Virginia Land Registry has of record an assignment from Captain Wm.
Brocas, Thomas Harwood and Christopher East, Chirurgeon of the Gleabe of
London, Attorneys for Thomas Grendon of London, merchant, of land sold unto
Captain John Browning, lying in Mound's Bay, Va., and held by John Warham,
for 3,000 pounds of tobacco, dated April 8. 1638. (Look Xo. 1, p. G30.)

Will of Thomas Stegge, Sr., dated October G, 1651, proved July 14, 1052, left
estate to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Grace, wife of John Byrd, goldsmith,
of London, parents of William Byrd of Virginia, and son Thomas Stegije, Jr.

Will of Thomas Stegge, Jr., dated March 31, lGG'J-70. proved May 1. 1071,

mentioned wife Sarah; mother Elizabeth, then the wife of Thomas Grendon,

citizen of London. Lieut. Col. Thomas Grendon went to England in 1070,

leaving power of attorney to his wife Sarah, William Byrd and William Randolph.

| Mrs. Grendon appears to have been a woman of >i>irit

In an "Act of Indemnitie and Pardon" passed the House of Burgesses nt the
I February term, l(u<;-7, among the exceptions to its clemency were " Sarah

Grendon, the wife (and now the Attorney of Thomas Grendon) and Edward
Phelps who were great encoura^ers and agistors in the late horrid reb< tlion,
shall have no other benefits of this present act. but are and shaibe lvalue to
sutler and pay such paiues, penalties and forfeitures not extending to life as by
the next grand assembly, or upon a legall tryall before the right honourable
the governor and council shaibe thought tltt and convenient."
' ii- Uenhufs Statute at Large, p. 371. She married thirdly Edward Braine or
Brayne of Charles City county, Va., whose will is dated August 26, 1693 ; proved
September, 170'.). Bequeaths to his kinswoman. Elizabeth Johnson, eldest daughter
of Frederick Johnson of London, mariner, his plantation in Charles City county,
and if she die without issue, to her sister Mary, and in case of her death without
issue to her sister Sarah; to Elizabeth Johnson three negroes and other personal
property; £12 sterling to buy twelve gold rings to be given to Captain Wil-
liam Byrd, Captain William Randolph, Captain William Berry, Captain John
liudds, to brother James Braine and his wife, to brother Frederick Johnson

•

Qfi Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

and his wife, to Mr. John Guy, to Mrs. Hannah Archer, to Mr. William Sutton,
to Henry Itanium; gold rings of 18 shillings value each to Captain Daniel
Llewettvii, Stephen Hudson, Thomas Hughes, Mr. Bannister; gives Jack Kent
(doubtless an indentured servant) his freedom after the death of the testator's
Wife. Gives Henry Harman certain personal property. Gives all the balance
of bis goods and chattels, plate, rings, jewels, etc., to wife Sarah.

There is of record in Henrico county court, February 10, 1680-1, deposition
of Henry Harman, "aged about 33," that he "was living at Mr. Thomas Gren-
don's in 1070."

Abel Gowerwas a Justice of the Peace for Henrico county 1G77-1G85, and
High Sherilfin 1081. In 107!) lie was listed with " 7 titbables "for taxation.

June 1, 1089, will of Abel Gower proved, dated December 25, 1088. Gives wife
Jane his plantation for life and then to daughter Tabitha, and if she die without
issue to Priscilla and Obedience Branch; his personal property to be divided
between his wife and daughters.

March, 1710-11. Petition of Richard Dennis and Mary his wife, heirs at law
of Abel Gower, dee'd.

Deed, dated December, 1000, from Jane Gower for a tract of land given her
by her father-in-law Christopher Branch of "Kingsland," conveys to John
Cocke and Obedience his wife, who was Obedience Branch, daughter of John
Branch, dee'd, who was the son of Jane Gower.

October 20, 1700, License granted Robert Grigg to marry Tabitha, orphan of
Abel Gower. — R. A. Brock.]

Job Tookie the elder of Mortlake in the County of Surrey, clerk, 14
October 1C37, pro: 21 May 1G38. I give to the poorer sort of inhabitants
in S l Ives in Iluntingtonshire forty shillings. To the free school in Upping-
ham twenty shillings to buy Scapula his Lexicon. To my daughter Rebecca
Tookie, being my first born, one hundred pounds, to my daughter Frances
Tookie four score pounds, to my daughter Bridget Tookie four score pounds,
to my daughter Elizabeth Tookie four score pounds, to my daughter Sara
Tookie four score pounds. Item, my will is that all the aforesaid recited
legacies bequeathed shall be paid unto the aforesaid legatees out of the
profits of my moietie of the oilice of Registership for the city as they shall
arise, which I give and bequeath to my son Job Tookie, with all my right,
title and interest unto the same. To my daughters Elizabeth and Sara
seven pounds apiece towards their education and bringing up yearly to be
paid at the four usual feasts, that is to say, at the feast of the Annunciation
of the Virgin Mary, at the feast of St John Baptist, at the feast of St
Michael the Archangel and at the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, until
they shall come to the age of one and twenty or the day of their marriage,
which comes first, and no longer. To my son Thomas fifty pounds, to be
paid unto him within six months after lie shall have served his apprentice-
ship. To my daughter Rebecca one feather-bed. To my son Job twenty
pounds, my library of books and my chest of viols and my box of Recorders
in the hands of my nephew Thomas Tookie. merchant of London. The
rest of my goods ecc. in the 'house, unbequeathed, shall be equally divided
amongst my four younger daughters, viz : Frances, Bridget, Elizabeth and
Sarah. After the former recited legacies arising out from the oilice afore-
said shall be paid, then the yearly profits arising out of the said office shall
be equally divided amongst my sons and daughters, viz: Job, Thomas,
Hebecca, Mary, Frances, Bridget, Elizabeth and Sarah. The residue ecc
I give and bequeath to my son Job Tookie, whom I ordain and make the
executor of this ray last will and testament.

Wit: Rich. Lee, Anna llassard, Elizabeth Bacon. Lee, 57.

[I presume that the testator was the minister of St. Ives in Huntingdonshire,
whom Palmer in his Nonconformist's Memorial, vol. 3, p. 20 (ed. 1802), states

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 97

■was "turned out of his Hying for not reading the Book of Sports." If so he
was the grandfather of Job Tookie of Marblehead, Mass., whose petition is
printed below. See editorial note, REGlSTEtt, vol. 38, p. 81. For a biography of
Kev. Job Tookie of Yarmouth, England, son of the testator and father of Job
of Marblehead, see the Nonconformist's Memorial, ubi supra. — EDITOR.]

At a County Court held the 27 June 1 G82 .

Richard Knott, pit:, agst: Job Tookey, deft:, in an action etc. acco: to
atachm*: dated 24 March 168J: withdrawne. The writ was issued by
Moses Mavericke Esq. per curiam for the town of Marblehead and directed
to the constable of Marblehead. The return on the back of the writ was
made by Elias Henly, constable of Marblehead, who declared that for want

i of security he had delivered the body of Job Tookie to Benjamin Felton,

Goale keeper o p Salem. It seems that an agreement had been made be-
tween Knott and Tookey (the latter then of Boston) 21 February 1681,
under which the defendant was bound to go in the service of the said Knott
on a fishing account for seven months, in consideration of which time and
service was to be paid the sum of forty shillings per month in fish as money
and was to be found in meat, drink, washing and other necessaries for a
fishing voyage, as lines, hooks, lead &c. And the said Knot agreed to pay
Samuel Mattockes of Boston the sum of thirty-seven shillings and Mr.
Wintworth of Great Island in Pascataqua river seven pounds per order and
agreement with said Tookey.

From the evidence of Nicholas Pickett it would appear that when Tookie
and he took some ballast aboard Dr. Knott's Ketch the hatches being open
"Tookie" ran to a hogshead of rum that stood in the Hold and tooke out
the bounge, took the steme of an Indian tobaco pipe which was like a read
and drank out of the bounge of the Hogg 1 ' soe terrible that in a short tyrne
hee was uncapeable for to doe any bisines.

June the 23 th : 82 Doctor Knott came to Goodm:Feltons house for a
Coppy of y° Attachment I hearing his Tongue (may it please y e honored
Court) callid unto him & desired him to send me my shirt & Drawers
"Whereupon he came to Goodm : ffeltons back Door rayling and reuiling at mo
most sadly calling of Rogue and Sirrah telling of me he had better at homo
to wipe his shoes then euer my father was for he said he was an Anny-
baptisticall Quakeing Rogue that for his maintainence went up & down
England to delude soules for y° Diuell w ch is no small Greife to me, to
Thinke that he has not Onilye abused me in keeping of me in elos Prison
almost this fourteen weekes but abuse him whom he neuer knew but was
well knowne to be a religuous Godly man by seuerall good Godly people
here in New England; likewise his Library w ch I brought ouer to This
Country Proues him (may it please y e honour 4 Court) not to be neither
Quaker nor Anny baptist. W oh y e Reuerend M r Allen & M r Madder of
Boston & y e Worshipf M r Danford of Cambridge are Sensible of besides a
great many Scollers of Cambridge w ch bought seuerall of y e Bookes per-
taining to my fathers Library.

May it please The Honour* Court
I beseech you r honou" To take this sad miserable and deplorable Condi-
tion I am now in; into your honours considerations: in considering in the
first place of my Education & bringing up w oh was to learning (my great
grand father was a Doctor of Divinitve in London in Queen Elizabeths
Tyme & Deceased there; my Grandfather was Minester of S l lues (well
known by y e honoured Gouern r Broadstreet as his honour told me himself e)

VOL. XLIV. 9*

98 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [Jan.

And likewise by Major Pembleton of Winter hauen* now Deceased) My
father (may it please y c honoured Court) and M r William Bridge Preached
Twelve yeares together in y° new Church of Great Yarmouth I being his
Eldest son he did Intend I should have been a minister And in my Thir-
teenth yeare of Age sent me to Emanuel Collidge in Cambridge it being
y e same Colledge he himselfe was brought up in : But y e prouidence of
God ordered it so The Tymes altering; I had been there but a fortnight
before my father sent for me home and asked me if I was willing to goe to
London to be an Apprentice; My answer was That I was willing to Sub-
mitt to his pleasure whereupon he sent me to London & I was Bound an
Apprentice to a Whole Sale Grocer in Cheapside ; But I had nott been an
Apprentice much aboue a yeare before y e Chiefest part of y e Citty was
Burnt; my Master sustaining therby so great a Losse as he did by reason
his Owne house he liued in & all his Goods and likewise seuerall other
houses he had rented out in y e Citty Broke; and was not able to sett up his
Trade againe ; Wherupon I being uery young desired my father if he pleased
That he would giue his Consent that I might goe to Sea; Which request of
myne (may it please y c honour d Court) he Consented unto ; And bound me
an Apprentice for Three yeares to Capt Sam 11 Scarlett of Boston to serue
to y e Sea; Which Tyrne I truly served as is well kuowne by seueral of
Boston; Now y e Debt (may it please y e honoured Court) w ch Doctor
Knott sayes he has Engaged to pay in my behalfe I did not owe it through
any Extrauegance but Through y e Prouidence of God having been taken
twice and cast away Once since I came out of England ; And now lately I
accidentally cutt all y° Sinews of my right hand; through w ch means I was
forced to lye lame upwards of six months not being able to use one of my
fingers in six months Tyme; That what y e Doctor had for y e Cure of my
hand y e Charges I was att for Washing Lodging & Diet it being in so
deere a place as it was in Piscataqua River besides the Losse of my Tyme;
brought me thus behinde hand; And Therfore I humbly desire you r
honours to Commiserate my pour & Distressed Condition I am now in;
being a Stranger to you 1- honours and likewise to this Towne hauing lavn
here almost fourteen Weekes in Close prison ; The Lord knowing that there
is no one knowes what here I haue suffered since I came in here hauing not
now halfe y e strength I had when I came first in here; The Lord knows
when I shall recouer my strength againe (but my trust I hope is still in
him) besides y e Losse of my most pretious Tyme w cl1 cm neuer be recalled
againe In w ch Tyme (may it please y e honoured Court) I might haue paid
M r Wentworth of Piscataqua his Debt hut haue maiieiou.-dey been Debarred
from it; & kept here by a Writched malicious man falsely w ch I question
not but your Honours plainlye sees it.

Your honours Poor and humble Declarant and Petion' Who prayes for
yo r honour* health happinesse and Prosperitye in this Lyfe and in y e World
to come lyfe Euerlasting

So prays Your honours humble Petitioner & Seruaut

Essex Co. Court Papers, vol. 37, page 150. Job Tookie.

Edward Bi:ttris of Oxford, chirurgeon, 29 April 36 th year of Charles
II. (1G84), proved 12 February 1G84. To my wife Anne all my two
thousand acres of land, and all other lands and tenements whatsoever within
the Province of Pennsylvania, or elsewhere, till my daughter Anna shall
attain her age of one a. id twenty years. To my wife the use of my silver

• Evidently Major Bryan Pendleton of Winter Harbor.— Editou.

•

1890.] Commission of Sir William PepperrelL 99

tankard and my three silver spoons. Reference to an Indenture of Lease
and Kelease with Henry Adams of Harwell in the County of Berks,
yeoman, and John Adams of Kingston Leisley in the County of Berks,
yeoman, — a messuage &c in the parish of S l . Peter in the Bayly in the
City of Oxford. My wife to be executrix. Cann, 15.

COMMISSION OF SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL, BART., 1757,
AS LIEUT. GENERAL.

Communicated by Albert A. Folsom, Esq., of Boston.

Mr. Oscar Leighton found in a house at Portsmouth, N. H.,
which he purchased and now occupies, a commission given to Sir
William Pepperrell, by Gov. Pownall, in 1757. The document is
engrossed upon parchment, and is in splended condition. It has
been suitably framed, and hangs on the office wall of the Appledore
House at the Isles of the Shoals. We give it below.

Province of the ") Thomas Pownall Esquire, Captain Gen-

Massachvsetts Bay. j" eral, and Governor in Chief, in and over His

Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay

[Seal] in New England, and Vice Admiral of the same.

To Sir William Peppekrel Baronet, and Major General in His

Majestys Army Greeting.

By Virtue of the Power and Authority in and by His Majesty's Royal
Commission to Me granted, to be Captain General and Govenour in Chief,
in and over this His Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay, I do
by these Presents, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty,
Courage and good Conduct, Constitute and appoint you the said Sir William
Pepperell to be Lieutenant General of the whole Militia within this
His Majestys Province, and do Commit to you the more immediate Conduct
and Command of the said Militia, with full Power upon any Emergency,
for the Special Defence and Safety of the Inhabitants, to assemble in

{Martial Array, order and dispose of all such part of the said Militia, as
you Shall judge necessary for that Purpose; and by Force of Arms to
encounter, repel, kill and destroy, by all fitting Meanes such of His
Majesty's Enemies as shall in a hostile Manner attempt or enterprize the
Invasion or Annoyance of any Fortress, or any of His Majestys .Subjects
in this Province, And upon any Allarm at Castle William to cause Such
Numbers of Soldiers to repair thither as you shall judge necessary for his
Majesty's Service, and the Security of Said Fortress; And you are care-
fully to discharge the Duty of your Said Office & Trust ; And all Subor-
dinate Military Officers within Said Province are hereby Commanded to
yield due Obedience to your Orders in Relation to the Premises; And
Yourself to observe and follow Such Directions and Instructions as you
shall from time to time receive from Me, for his Majestys Service, accord-
ing to Rules and Discipline of War, pursuant to the Trust reposed in you.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Boston the eighth Day of
August 1757. In the thirty first Year of the Reign of his Majesty King
Geokge the Second.

By His Excellency s Command, T. Pownall.

Thos. Clarke, Dep ty Secry.

100 Early Charitable Organizations of Boston. [Jan.

THE EARLY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS OF
BOSTON.

A paper read before the New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2, 1879,
by the late Edward Winslow, Esq., of Boston.

HOLDING the position of general agent of one of the oldest
private charitable societies (still in full operation) in the city,
founded in 183,5,* on the principle that employment is the best form
of charity, I have naturally been led to investigate the first methods
adopted for this purpose, and to ascertain what was done by our
fathers for the care of the poor. Owing to the great increase by
immigration of the poorer classes from Europe, the prevention of
pauperism has become a more difficult problem to solve now than it
was for our fathers, although it is now being considered by the best
minds both in this country and in England. It was a little curious
to find, in the course of my investigations, and in view of the Chinese
question, that the same objection was made early in the history of
the town to the importation or immigration of foreigners by native
laborers and mechanics, that is now made by naturalized foreigners
to the immigration of the Chinese ; for as early as 1667 a petition
was sent to the General Court to pass a law for its prevention.
There are one hundred and twenty-nine names on the petition, which
is dated May 12, 1677, and alleges that strangers from all parts
come into the town, many of whom are unskilled, and interfere with
the mechanics who are the most numerous class and pay a large
proportion of the taxes.

When the colonies first began to feel the effects of the monopoly
of British manufactures, and to experience the dependence of all
classes, more especially in the difficulty of providing for the employ-
ment of women and children, a large meeting of the citizens of the
town was held, about the year 1735, to devise some measures for
their relief. At this meeting a committee was appointed to report
upon the expediency of establishing a school for the instruction of
women and children in spinning and weaving. This movement
resulted in the erection of a handsome brick structure, bearing on
its front the figure of a woman holding a distaff. The site of this
building was on Tremont Street' (then called, as is well known,
"Long Acre "), and nearly opposite to where the Park Street Church
now stands. Great enthusiasm was created in the town at the
opening of this building, and numbers of women came with their
8pinning wheels ; but whether it was for want of machinery or the
necessary experience, the enterprise was abandoned after a few years,

* Edward Winslow, Esq., the author of this paper, was the general agent of the Indus-
trial Aid Society. He was born at Boston, Nov. 7, 1803, and died at Newton Centre, May
26, 1883. See biographical sketch, Register, Vol. 38, page 98.— Editor.

1890.] Early Charitable Organizations of Boston. 101

although a tax was laid upon carriages and other luxuries by the
General Court for its support.

This movement of the citizens for the establishment of manufac-
tures may have been the origin of those corporations that have since
done so much for the prosperity of New England, and which soon
attained the experience and employed the machinery that enabled them
to compete successfully with foreign nations.

But in March, 1748, another movement was made, partly to
encourage industry and partly to relieve the poor ; and as flax at
that time was extensively cultivated in New England, it was thought
desirable to establish the linen business. A company was soon
organized, and probably the same building that was erected in "Long
Acre " in 1735, was utilized for this purpose. A subscription paper,
no doubt several, were circulated among the citizens in order to
establish the business, and among our old family papers one of these
papers was found, containing the names of thirty-five prominent
citizens of the town, with the amount of their subscriptions, in their
own handwriting. Among these names may be seen those of James
Bowdoin, Thomas Oliver, William Phillips, Edmund Quincy, Jos.
Quincy, Samuel Wells, Isaac Winslow and others. The names of
John Hancock, James Otis and others of note, were said to have
been subscribed on other subscription papers, and a copy of all the
signers may be seen at the Boston Library containing one hundred
and ninety-nine names.

The paper which I now have the pleasure to present to the society
is original, and has been considered by some of our associates worthy
of your consideration — more, perhaps, than the few remarks that
have been made in the presentation. The paper is not so ancient
as it would seem to be by its appearance, for there are those living
who can identify the handwriting of several of the signers. But what-
ever may seem of recent date to us, will not seem so to our successors.
We are passing away, and events and localities of comparatively
recent date to us, will be old to them. Such great chan ires have
been made in the topography of our citv within the remembrance of
many of our associates, and so many worthy citizens have passed
away, it may be well for us to record our recollections of both, though
they may not have the flavor or the stamp of antiquity. In this view,
I propose to conclude with a brief notice of the several Poor-houses
or Alms-houses, though there is perhaps nothing new to be said
about them, or in regard to their location.

The first alms-house was erected on Beacon Street in 16G2, and
was burned in 1682. It was probably a wooden structure, as a two
story brick building was erected on the same street, and probably
on the same site. After a few years, although designed for the poor
and infirm, it was also used for the confinement of criminals. This
was an evil demanding a speedy remedy ; consequently a House of
Correction, or Bridewell, was built in Park Street about 1720.

/ :zroy

■JRAKrf'

102 Early Charitahle Organizations of Boston* [Jan*

Contiguous to this, a large and handsome brick building-, facing the
Common, was built in 1738, for a work-house and alms-house. It was
one hundred and twenty feet in length, and these public buildings
occupied the whole length of Park Street. But this large building
finally became so much crowded, and the ventilation was so imperfect,
that in 1800 the inmates were removed to a new brick building of
imposing appearance and proportions, erected on Leverett Street,
and this was used for the care of the poor for twenty-five years.
The dimensions of the lot on which it was built were 280 feet by
80; the building was 270 feet in length by 5G in breadth. It had
a fine central hail 50 by 40 feet, and on the pediment were several
tolerably carved figures in wood, representing some females adminis-
tering charity to poor children, none of the group being abundantly
supplied with clothing. Residing for some years in the vicinity,
and when first taken by my father to visit a poor person, the building
seemed palatial to a boy's eyes, and it was considered an ornament
to the city. Subsequently, on looking through the handsome iron
gate, I saw the children at their games, and they seemed to be rather
objects of envy than of pity, until some well dressed person appeared,
when they left their play and their merry looks, and thrust their
hands through the bars of the gate for alms. They knew well
enough that boys in those days were not blessed with much pocket
money.

The relatives and friends of the inmates were admitted to the
institution on certain days, and it was a great grief to those poor
people when they were removed to South Boston in 1825. The
building stood near where Barton Street is now, facing Leverett
Street, and inclosed with a high brick wall. The rear was open to
Charles River. Many respectable persons were inmates of the Boston
and Roxbury poor-houses at that time and and previous to the great
immigration of foreign poor, and it was not considered such a disgrace
then as it is now, though a great many persons are quite willing to
be supported by the public outside of the public institutions.

Boston 10 th March 1748.

We the Subscribers apprehending that the promoting of Industry
& encouraging such Manufactures as are best suited to the Produce of our
Lands would, among other things, tend to relieve the Province under Its
present difficultys, & heing especially desirous of promoting the Linnen
Manufacture, do hereby promise to pay to such Person or Persons as
We or the Major part of Us assembled for that purpose 6hall appoint to
receive the same, the several Sums affixed to our Names, to be disposed of
& employed for such purposes as We shall then agree upon. And further
We agree to meet at the Workhouse in Boston on Thursday the sixteenth
of this Instant March at three o'Clock afternoon, if we conveniently can,
then & there to consult Measures to elfect these Designs, & to abide by
such Resolutions as shall then & there be agreed upon by the Major part
of Us then assembled, provided that two thirds of the Number subscribing

1890.]

Lee of Virginia.

103

hereto shall be then present,
in old ten r .

Tho* Bill Fifty pound

Edw d Jackson Fifty Pounds

Sam 1 Grant ffifty Pounds

John Barrett fifty pounds

Nath 11 Holmes fifty pounds

Joseph Sherburne

Tho' Baxter

Thomas Gushing

John Franklin

Sam 1 Cary

James Russell

Joseph Green

Benj e Hallowell

Ezek 1 Goldthwait

Dan 1 Henchman

Isaac Winslow

And. Oliver for myself one hundred
Pounds old ten 1- , & further agree
as one of the Exec" of my Father's
Will to appropriate the Income of
the House which he gave to main-
tain a School, to the foregoing
design, if conducted agreeable
thereto. £100

The following Sums are understood to be

£50

£100

£50

Jacob Wendell fifty Pound
Eze: Lewis fifty Pounds
Fran". Borland Fifty Pounds.
Edw. Bromfield Fifty Pounds )

old tenor. j

Joshua Cheever One Hundred )

Pound (

Tho' Hubbard one hundred }

pounds
Edm. Quincy One hundred

pounds
Eben zr Storer one hundred P:
Js a Walker Fiffty Pounds old

Tenor
Andrew M c kenzie

ed j

£50
50

100

100:

£50

Tho 1 Greene one hundred Pounds
Samuel Welles fifty Pounds
James Pitts fifty pounds
Thomas Oxuard fifty Pounds
James Bowdoiu one hundred pounds
Tho 8 Flucker fifty pounds
Will" 1 Bowdoin One hundred pounds
Jos ia Quincy one hundred pounds
W m Phillips fifty pounds £50

[On a small piece of paper attached to this document, in another hand from that
in the body of it, is written : " Linen Manufactory 1748, 10 March. Subscrip-
tion of the United Society for Manufactures and Importation on w ch sund. sums
are due, viz' I Faverweather

S. Welles Estate

N. B, Arnold Welles desires to see it & did not scruple to pay it.
Mem To shew it him."

LEE OF VIRGINIA.

Genealogical Notes Proving the Error of the
Previously Accepted Pedigree.

Communicated by J. Henry Lea, Cedarhurst, Fairhaven, Mass.

SOME years since a lively discussion arose over the genealogy of the
distinguished family of Lee of Virginia, excited by the appearance of
a clumsy forgery* which was fully exposed in the columns of the Nation
by Mr. W. 11. Whitmore of Boston. The burden of evidence at that time
seemed to point to Ilichard Lee of Stratford-Langton, in Essex, a suburb

* Genealogical Hisrorv of the Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland, from A.D. 1300 to
A.D. 1866. With Notes and Illustrations. Edited by Edward C. Mead. New York:
Richardson & Co. 1868.

101

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[Jan.

of London, the son of Sir Robert Lee, Knt., of that place, as identical with
the Col. Richard Lee who, in 1G40, emigrated to Virginia and founded there
a family which has perhaps given more statesmen and warriors to their new
home than any other of our old colonial progenitors. This evidence,
although rather shadowy, — being in fact nothing more than that the emi-
grant, in his will, called himself "late of Stratford-Langton," — was never-
theless generally accepted, faute de ?nieux, by most genealogists, and, it is
believed, by the family themselves, while a recent magazine article by Rev.
F. G. Lee in the Miscellania Genealogica, afterward reprinted in pamphlet
form,* assumed this descent as proven and so constructs the pedigree with-
out more evidence than he is able to adduce for his own many and frantic
attempts to connect himself with the same noble family.f

The writer has, however, in the course of other investigations on which
he has been engaged for some years past in the English Records, fully
satisfied himself that this Richard Lee, son of Sir Robert, died in his youth,
and that another Richard Lee who was also of Stratford-Langton and Step-
ney in the first half of the 17th century and distantly, if at all, connected
with the Quarrendon Family," was the true ancestor of the Virginia stock.
Who this Richard may have been he hopes at some not distant day to be
able to clearly prove. Meanwhile we must not lose sight of the fact that
the son of the emigrant, in his monumental inscription in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, is described as " de ant i qua familia in Merton Regis in
comitatu Salopsiensi oriundi" a fact utterly irreconcilable with the Quarren-
don theory, but which may hereafter give a clue to the true descent.

Of the proofs which follow, the writer need say but little, as they speak
for themselves and must be convincing to any mind open to conviction.

First we may cite the Inquisition Post Mortem held on the death of Sir
Henry Lee, Knight of the Garter and Champion of Queen Elizabeth, who
by his will (which it is needless to quote) made his cousin, Henry Lee
(afterward baronet), the eldest son of Sir Robert Lee, Knt, of Stratford-
Langton, his heir. This Inquisition, as will be seen, fully provides for
failure of the succession, passing over Edward, the second son, who, as a
clergyman and celebate, is not unnaturally omitted, and gives us George,
Thomas and Robert Lee, as the only other surviving sons of Sir Robert at
that date, with remainder, failing their issue, to Robert Lee of Binfield,
John Lee of Latehford, cousins, and Henry Lee of Rainsford, great nephew
of Sir Henry Lee, K. G.

These sons are all mentioned in the will of Sir Robert, the father, in-
cluding the younger son, Robert, who only survived his father a few mouths,
being buried at Hardwick, 19 November, 1G1G, and is accordingly, as we
would expect, omitted in the will of his mother, Lady Lucy Lee, made in
1617. Thomas, the third son, dies unmarried and intestate in lG2o, shortly
after his mother, and his estate is administered by his brother Edward,
the Rector of Hardwick.

The next will, that of Sir Henry Lee, Bart., the heir of Sir Henry Lee,
K. G., mentions his only son, Francis Henry Lee, and his surviving brothers,

* Genealogy of the Family of Lee of Chester, Bucks and Oxon, showing the Lineal
Descent of the late General Robert E. Lee of Virginia, America, from Sir John Lee, Knt.
Compiled by the Rev. Frederick George Lee, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints, Lambeth,
London. London : Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour Street. 1S84.

t Compare the Pedigrees in Herald and Genealogist, 18G5, Vol. III. fo. 486 et seq., and
that given at fo. G3o of same author's History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal
Church of the Blessed Virgin Marv of Thame in the County and Diocese of Oxford, &c. &c.
Loudon : Mitchell & Hughes. 1883.

1890.]

Lee of Virginia.

105

Kdward and George; as before passing over Edward, as a celebate, and
making George and his issue his heir in default of his own issue, with re-
mainder to Robert Lee of Binfield. His Post Mortem shows also the
brother George as the only possible heir among the issue of Sir Robert.
This George, dying in 1Go7, leaves live children living, of whom t\ie three
sons, Robert, George and Henry, are named as heirs (in failure of his own
line) by their cousin, Sir Francis Henry Lee, the second Baronet, in 1G^9,
with Robert Lee of Binfield again in remainder.

Robert Lee, the elder of the sons of George, died in 1C55, evidently
without issue,, and names his two younger brothers, — of whom, from this
time, we lose sight altogether in the disturbed period of the Restoration —
and with them of the only possible representatives of the Lees of Quarren-
don at the present day. The Parish Registers of Wendover, which the
writer has carefully and personally searched, yield no entries whatever of
the name.

To sum up, then — "We have here the wills of the father, mother, three
brothers, two nephews, and the great nephew, of the supposed Col. Richard
Lee, not one of whom, although providing most carefully for the succession
and entail of a large estate, ever mentions Richard's name ! The conclusion
to which we are forced is irresistible and not to be gainsaid. But there is
a last and utterly conclusive link of evidence in the monument of Sir
Robert Lee, Knt., in Hardwick Church, which the writer has personally
inspected, and of which, thanks to the courtesy of the Rev. Mr. Bigg-
Wither, the Rector, he has secured a good photograph. The inscription
of this monument recites by name the eight sons and six daughters of the
deceased knight, while their cifigies are represented kneeling at prayer, the
sons behind the father and the daughters behind the mother. Now, of these
sons five are bearded men, while three are depicted by smaller and beardless
figures; in other words, the live first represent Henry, Edward, Thomas,
George and Robert, whom we know to have all attained their majority,
while the latter depict Benedict, Anthony and Richard, who, unnamed in
all the wills, are thus still further proven to have died in infancy or early
youth.

So much for the negative evidence. The writer hopes, ere long, if life
and health are spared him, to be able to rebuild what he has destroyed, and
to present as convincing proof of the true pedigree, as he has here submitted
to discredit the faulty one so long accepted.

[The date of the settling In the Colony of Virginia of Colonel Richard Lee,
the founder of the distinguished family of the name, h;ts been stated as 1041,
but the Land Patent Records of Virginia would seem to fix it a year later.
Richard Lee, Gent., was granted 1000 acres on the south side of Charles River
in York County, at a place called "Indian Spring," August 10, 1012. Among
the names of the head rights are Richard Lee and his wife Anne. There were,
according to the Land Records, other early settlers in Virginia of the name:
Henry Lee, w T ho received patent for 247 acres in York County, March 3, 1049.
(Book No. 2, p. 202.) lie subsequently received other patents. Hugh Lee,
granted 100 acres in Northumberland County, December 20. 1050. His " impor-
tation from Maryland" of self and Rose Rockwell. (Look No. 2, p. 275.) He
subsequently received a number of extensive grants. Peter Lee was granted
120 acres in Henrico County, M known as Worraeke," December 14. 1050. (Rook
No. 4, p. 67.) George Lee was granted BOO acres in Surry County, June 10, 1075.
(Book No. G, p. 555.) He subsequently received other grants. A George Lee
was Clerk of Westmoreland County from 1742 to 1701. It may be of interest to
Mr. J. Henry Lea to know that William Lee was granted 500 acres in Charles
City County, on the south side of James River, February 10, 1054. His name
appears among the head rights. (Book No. 3, p. 322.)— R. A. Brock.]

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[Jan.

Buck. No. 144.

Jug. &c. Stoney Stratford 21 May 9 Jac &c. pt. mort. Ilenr. Lee ordo-
iiis garterii militis. ob. s. p. ap. Spellsburvc 12 ffeb- 8 Jac. 1G10.
Estates, Bucks. — Quarrendon, Burston, Brydestborne, llardwick, Weedon

Wedone, Blackgrove, Blagrove, illetemarston, little mar&ton, wretched

marston, preb. Aylesbury.
Estates, Oxon. — Spillsbury, Ditchley, Wootton.

, . .* & her Dno. Ileur. Lee mil. et act. 21 Ana.
G in remainder.
5 in rem.

Henry Lee Rainsfford . ,
Johes Lee de Latchford
Robtus Lee de Biniield

Benedict Lee=
de Huckott

in Com.
Buck. Ar.

Robtus Lee, mil.=
fll. et heres.

Ill I

Thomas, Robt. Hear. Lee, Ar. Georgius Lee,

3. 4 in fll. & her. 1 in 2d rem.

rem. rem.

Coles' Escheats in Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., fo. 51.

1611. — 18 February, Commission issued to Sir Arthur Savage, Knt.,
next of kin and one of the creditors of John Lee, late of Latchford in Corn.
Oxon., deceased, &c. P. C. C, Adinon. Act Bk.

1612. — Nuncupative Will of John Lee of Latchford, co. Oxon., Esq.
Dated "in the time of hys last sickness whereof he dyed or thereabouts."
To sister Mrs Goodday his mother's wedding ring; to daughter of Mrs.
Goodday, Mres. Elizabeth Kenishain a Diamond Ring to daughter of Mrs.
Gooddaie, Mres. Daniel a stone pott couered with silver; to Jane Cooper
in regard that her husband had served him a long time & had laid forth
£50 which was unpaid his Residuary Legatee & all his goods at Latchford;
to Sir Arthur Savage, Knt., his lease at Strickson to pay those debts which
he John Lee, had caused to be sett down in writing. Administrator, Sir
Arthur Savage; Wit: "dyvers and sundries witnesses"; proved 12 July
1612 by Sir Arthur Savage, Administrator. Will contested by Anna
Goodday, Elizabeth Freeman and Joanna Daniell.

P. C. C, Fenner, 68.

1616. — W r ill of Sir Robert Lee of Stratford, Langton, Essex, Knt. . . •
"Memorandum that Sr Robert Lee, Knighte, of Stratford Langton in ye
countie of Essex, in the month of August anno Domini one thousand
sixe hundred and sixteen and abowte the sixteenth day of the same
monthe a little before his deathe, beying of perfect mynd and memorye,
spake these wordes or the like in effect, viz."

All his household goods to his wife. To sonn Thomas Lee his woods at
Hardum in Sussex. To sonn George Lee £50 to be paid on a certain bond
& £50 to be paid out of his stock. To sonn Robert Lee £50 to be paid by
his wife, Dame Lucie Lee, into the hands of his sonn Edward Lee for the
use of his said sonn Robert, to whom he gives all his apparrell. Mentions
that he owes to Mr. Joseph Lake for his daughter, Lake's, portion. Men-
tions certain debts " owing in this town of Stratford Langton to the Brewer,

Obliterated, probably nephew.

1890.] Lee of Virginia. 107

the Baker, the Batcher & the Chaundler, fortie pounds. Mentions that he
owes to Eaton, the tailor, for a dublett and a payer of hose. To be buried at
Hardwick.

Proved by Dame Lucie Lee, the relict, as a Nuncupative Will, August
30, 1616. P. C. C, Cope, 81.

1623. — Dame Luce Lee of Hardwick, co. Bucks., widowe. Will dated 10
January 1617. To be buried in Parish Church of Hardwicke. To poor of
parish xxs. ; to use of the church xxs. ; to daughter the ladie Le;i "one
irishe little chaire wrought with irishe sticke"; to son Edward Lee a
" siluer cupp with a cotter, called maudlin cupp & my great brason and-
irons"; to son Thomas Lee one siluer bowle & fower siluer spoones, bed-
stead with furniture, linen, &c; to daughter Mary Halle, bed &c already in
her own possession, "allso one little siluer bowle to drinke beare in' y ; to
Willm Halle the younger xl s. ; to Lea Hall eleaven sh.; to daughter Alice
Lacke 2 siluer spoones & one little siluer goblet to drinke wine in; to
servant Stokes xx s. ; to seruant Alice Gamier xl s. ; to son George Lee
"siluer bason n & ewre, 2 siluer pottes, called co-Hedge, pottes, 2 siluer
saltes, 2 siluer tankards & one siluer greate bowle, 6 siluer spoones, one
siluer box with a siluer sugar spoone & all my plate unbequeathed," sundry
beds, bedding, furniture &c, & said son George to be Residuary Legatee
& sole Executor. Overseer son Edward Lee. Wit: Richard Hojise.

! Proved 26 April 1G23 by the Executor named in will.

Archdeacon of Bucks, Vol. 1623—5, fo. 109.
1623. — 29 March, Commission issued to Edward Lee, " Clcs," natural
& legitemate brother of Thomas Lee late of St. Martin near Ludgate City
of London, but " celebis et iutest. defs." Ac. 2 A. 1624.

P. C. C, Act Book.

1631. — Will of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, co. Oxon., Knight & Baronet,
dated 30 March 1631. To wife, Dame Elinor Lee, "all such household
stuffe & furniture as doe belong to any twoe chambers in my dwelling house
at Ditchley which she shal make choyee of & all her jewels," also coach &
harness & 4 best horses; to son and heir Francis Henry Lee, then in his
minority, all plate & other household goods; Recites that certain manors,
lands, tenements &c, in the counties of Oxon & Bucks, had been settled by
Deed dated 20 March 1630-1 upon Sir Thomas Peniriston of Cogirs. Knt.
& Bart., Sir Edward TeriM of Thornton, Knt. <?c Bart., Sir Edward Verney
of Cleiden, Knt., Edward Lee of Hardwick, Clerk, Francis Gregory of
Hordley. Esqr., William Hall, Gentn., & George Pickering, Geutn., for the
use of his son Francis Henry Lee, or in default of issue of the said
Francis Henry, two parts of the same to go to his eldest daughter,
Bridget, & one part to his younger daughter, Anne, or hi default of
their issue, to his brother George Lee, Esqr., cV in default of his issue to
Robert Lee of Bynfeild. co. Berks, Esqr., or in default of his issue, to the
right heirs of the said Sir Henry Lee, Knt.; to brother George Lee £10
to buy plate & the same sum "to good brother Edward"; mentions sister
Mrs Mary Hall & her sister Lake, also kinsman & servant, Lee Hall; to
( be disposed in blacks at the discretion of Executrix £100; to be bestowed

ou a tomb for mee in the parish church of Spellesbury " £100; Legacies
to poor of Hardwick, Wedon, Beerton, Abbotts- Aston, Wadsden & Spelles-
bury; Recites a settlement of his mansion of Bridetshorn alias Burston in
parish of Aston-Abbotts, dated 27 April, 1614, Wife sole Executrix.

Proved 5 May 1631 by Executrix. P. C. C, St. John, 59.

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Lee of Virginia.

[Jan.

Henr. Lee de Ditchicy=
in Com. Oxon., mil.

6 bart. , vel. i>() Marti j

7 Car. ob. GApr. 1631.

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ffrancisens Hcnricus Lee
baronet fd. uni. et lieres
act. 25 Ann. pr urn ward
de Roy.

3000£ fines.

1000 mks. rent.

1
Anna,
2 Alio.

1
Bridgetta,
1 Alio.

Coles' Escheats in Brit. Mus., Vol. III. fo. 14.

1637. — Will of George Lee of Highgate, in parish of Hornsey, co. of
Middx,., Esq. ; Dated 81 May 1037. To be buried in the most privatest
manner & with the leaste charge & expense that may bee only mourning
to be given to wife, children & maiude servnt which now dwelleth with
me & to noe other; to deere & loving wife Judith £1000 & all plate,
household stuff &c nowe in my chambers & lodgings att Highgate &
in London, except my bason & ewre of silver, which I give to eldest son
Robert Lee, the same being given him at his baptism by his god-fathers,
my late brother Sr. Henry Lee & my now brother Edward Lee. preacher
of the word of god; wife is to give bonds in £400 to nephew, Sir Francis
Henry Lee & brother, Edward Lee ; in case she marry again to pay each
of 5 children three score pounds apeece, viz. Hellen, Robert, George,
Luce & Henry, or if she be with child, 50 lbs apeece to 6 children at 21
years or marriage of daughters ; to poor of Hardwick & Weedon, co. Bucks,
where I was borne 40s. Estate to be equally divided amongst children or
survivors of them. Executors — nephew Sir Francis Henry Lee & brother
Edward Lee, & to each of them 40s. for a rihge. Wit: Thomas Conn &
Humfrey Nicols. Proved 21 June 1037. P. C. C, Goare, 84.

1639. — Will of Sr. ffrances Henry Lee of Ditehley in Countie of Oxon.,
baronet, " in my good and pfeet health and memory." Dated 10 March
17 Charles; Dispose of worldly estate principally to Deere & lovinge Wife
Dame Anne, eldest sonne Henry & the children we nowe have or hereafter
may have; Beseeches the Kings M-atie & Master & Council! of Wards v\c
liveries that the wardshipp of lands of Sonne & lleire be committed to said
wife. To wife Dame Anne all howsehold stuff tVce now in and belonging to
Chamber called redd bedd Chamber & all remainder of that plate given her
by her ffather att her marriage, all her Jewells to her owne use & because
some of that plate is wanting £100 to buy other in place thereof, coach &
4 Coach horses if I have so many at death, if not £20 for each horse that
is wanting; to sonne Henry all other plate, householdstuffe &c at age of
21, to be used by wife during mynority if shee soe longe remain unmarried;
Recites Indenture of 5 March 14 Car., by which has demised vnto Sr. John
St. John of Lidiard Tregose, co. Wilts, Knt. & Bart., Sr. Thomas Peneston
of Cornewall, co. Oxon, Knt. & Bart., Sr. Edmund Varney of Midd.
Cleydon, co. Bucks, Knt., George Pickeringe & John Cary of Ditchley,
gent., divers Manors, lands &c in Oxon & Bucks for 99 years in trust

1800.] Lee of Virginia. 109

—confirms said Deed, they to employ rents &c in discharging debts &
legacies. Recites that mother, the right honble Elinor Countess of Sussex,
holds in Dower & by lease lands &c of myne for life — if she die during
minority of son then \ of such Ids which she had either from Sr. Henry
Lee my father or in right of dower shalbe sett forth for the Kings Mutie
during such minority & the other § to the aforsaid trustees ; &c &c. To
eldest daughter Elinor £5000 — viz. 2000 in 6 mos after her marriage or
a^e of 21 & other 3000 in 6 mos after death of the Countess of Sussex, or,
if she marry without consent of mother & trustees, £500 only & three
score pounds a year for maintenance till 14 & fowerscore till 21 or marriage;
if wife be now with child to it £1000 within 6 months of majority or
marriage & £3000 in 6 mos after death of Countess of Sussex or it married
without consent £400 only, £50 a year till 14 & then threescore pounlls a
year till 21 ; to second sonne ffrancis Henry threescore pounds yearly till
14 & four score till 21 & a Capital!" farme in Hardwick co. Bucks., he to
pay sonne & heire £6-13-6 yearly, also an annuity of £300 out of Manour
of Hardwick & weedon ; wife to have education of all younger children; to
ffather Sr. John St. John £20 for peece of plate; to friends Sr. Thomas
Peniston & Sr. Edmond Varney the same; to servants George Pickering
& John Cary same bequest; to my Chaplain Mr. John Meredith £20 to
buy books; to servant Geo. Pickering sorrell stone horse & bay mare; to
servant John Cary batbary horse & little nagg, & to Anne Cary, his
daughter, £100 at 10 years or marriage; to servants Richard Washington
& Jaques the ffrenchman £10 apeece; to servants Danell the Cooke, John
Patie, Oliver Kinderly, Richard Deane, Richard Welshe & John Treadway
£5 apeece; to servant William Hucknell £5; to servants Thos. Hucknell,
John Spur, Michael Ilolloway, Robert Clare, Robert Kyman, John Barnard,
Humfrie Barnard, John firauklyn, Cornelius Collins & John Goodyer 40s.
apeece; to Anne Cleeter the nurse £5; to servant Anne Yorke £5 ; to
servants Anne Baggett, ffrancis Morton, Sarah Holloway & Jone Bailie
40s. apeece ; to be disposed in blacks £100 ; to poor of Hardwick & Weedon
£6-13-4; to poor of Abbotts Aston, Bexton, Waddeston each 40s.; to
poor of Spellsbury £40 to add to stock of £40 which my father gave; to
sonne & heire Henry all Manours, lands, &c with remainder, in default of
lawful male issue, to second sonne ffrancis Henry, with remainder to third
sonne to be begotten, with remainder to fourth sonne to be begotten, with
remainder half to eldest daughter, Elinor for life, &, if wife be now with
child with a daughter the other moietie to such dau., if said daughter or
daus. die in lifetime of my sisters Dame Bridgett Tryon & Mris Anne Lee
then estate to said sisters for their lives, with remainder to Robert Lee,
eldest sonne of my vncle George Lee, &,-in default of lawful male issue, to
George Lee, second sou of vncle George Lee, with remainder to Henry
Lee, youngest sonne of same, with remainder to Cossen Robert Lee of
Bingfield, co. Berks, with remainder to my right heirs forever. Wife Dame
Anne sole Executrix. In witness &c F. Henry Lee. Wit: John Meredith,
John Whitton, Nich : Whitton, John Bradley, Edward L^veil.

Probate issued 10 August 1639 to Dne Anne Lee relict & Executrix
named in the will. P. C. C, Harvey, 137.

1641. — Will of Edward Lee, of Hardwicke, Clerke, Rector of Hardwick ;
Dated 1 Nov. 1641. To poor of Hardwicke & Wedon £6-13-4; to poor
of Aylesbury 40s.; to Mr. Bartin, Minister of Aylesbury, to preach a
funeral sermon at burial 20s. ; to Merton College St. Augustine's Works ;

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to Sir Nathaniel Brent, "Warden of same College, a mourning ring of 20s.;
to Lady Lee, late wife to Sir Francis Henry Lee, Bart, my nephew
deceased, my guilded bible in octavo & "I giue vnto her my scale ring of
our ancestor's arms, humbly intreating her to keep it for the vse of the heire
of our howse & to deliver it to him at the age of one & twenty yeares ; " to
sister Lake, now wife of Mr. Henry Lake of Buckland, bedstead, bedding
& furniture which are in the newe chamber, & my middle siluer bowle &
10s. for a ringe ; to Mr. Lake, her husband, 10s. for a ringe ; to god-daughter
Lucy Lake 20s. for ringe; to all other children of sister Lake to by ringes
10s. apeece; to nephews George & Henry Lee, sons of brother George,
deceased, & to their two sisters, my neices, 10s., apeece for a ringe ; to sister
Mrs. Mary Hall a bedstead & 20s. for a ringe; to Mr. Coates, minister of
"Whitchurch, best Tabby Casock & 10s. for ringe; to Mr. George Pick-
ering & to Mr. John Cary 10s. each for a ringe; to wife of William
Theed of Whitchurch 20s. & stuffe gowne faced with velvet; to my two
sisters, each of them a mourning vaile; to eosen William Hall's wife, my
deaths head ringe; to neighbor John Reddinge 10s. for ringe; to cosen
Bassett & his wife 10s. each for ringe; to 8 servants, named, sundry small
legacies. Residuary Legatees nephews William Hall & Lee Hall. Sole
Executor William Hall. Overseers, Daniel Chatburn & Mr. pickoringe.

Codicil — same date — To good friends & allies Sir Edward Tirrell & Lady
Tryon & Mrs. Anne Lee, daughters of my brother, Sir Henry Lee, Knt. &
Bart., each 10s. for a ringe.

Wit: ffra: Stevens, Michael Parrott, Eliz : Vawdrey. Proved 2 Dec.
16-41 by Executor named in will.

Archdeacon of Bucks, Vol. 1641, fo. 2G.

1655. — Robert Lee of Wendover, co. Lucks, Gent. Will dated Janu-
ary 1655. To mother Mrs. Judith Orwell a ring; to grandmother Mrs.
Judith Nicholls a ring; to brother George Lee & Winifred his wife each
a ring; to brother Henrie Lee a ring; to brother Humfrey Vernon &
Ellen his wife, my sister, each a ring ; to brother Samuel Winston <Sc Luce
his wife, my sister, each a ring ; Wif. Joane Lee Residuary Legatee &
Executrix. Wit : Robert Stocken, Tho : Scare. Proved by Executrix 2o
Ffeb. 1655. P. C. C, Berkley, 33.

1658. — 4 August, Letters of Adcon. issued to Dame Anne wilhnott,
mother of Ellenor Lee, late of Ditchley, parish of Spalesbury. co. Oxon.,
Spinster, deceased intestate. P. C. C, Admon: Act Bunk.

1659. — Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, co. Oxom, Baronet. Dated IS
March, 1058. Trustees — vncle Sir 'Walter St. John of Lidiard, Wilt.-,
Bart., Sir Ralph Verney of Cleydon, Bucks, Km., & John Cary of Ditch-
ley, Oxom, gent., whom he "regrets to trouble but they arc tho only persons
whom he can trust." To daughter Ellenour ,£5<)00 & £$Q per aim. till
12 years of age then £120 till 15. If child wife now goeth with be a daugh-
ter, the same bequest; if a son, then subject to trustees aforesaid for heirs
male of my body, in default for brother Francis Henry Lee & his heirs
male; in which case daughters each to have £-']000. Names mother
Countess of Rochester. In default of issue of brother Francis Henry Lee
then Manors &c, in Burston, Bucks, to Cousen George Lee & his heirs,
with remainder to cosen Henry Lee, younger brother ot cosen George Lee
& his heirs male, with remainder to my (half) brother the Earl of Roches-
ter provided he take my name, with remainder to my right heirs ; to wife

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of CO.
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Efcq.,
1 vile.

Mabel ••
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buried
Al«toek
co.Buckft

sBcncdict Leo of Hulcott
h Bicrton ; ob. 1547,
buried at Ilulcotc;
Wilt P. C. C. 42
Alcn.

Elizabeth, dnu.
of Robert
Clicyne of
C lies ha in
Bois, Esq.;
living 1,547.
2 wife.

Henry Lee—

Bostock.

Lees of London and
Cold Ashley, county
Northampton.

Sir Robert I-co, Knt., of Hulcotc=Lucy, dnu. of Thomas Pigott,

co. Bucks., unci of StrnUord
Langton,eo.Esscx,nat.l645;
oh. 1616, bur, at Hardwick.
Mon. Ins. rem. (Will P. C.
C. 81 Cope.)

_! ohn *

ohn Lee, citizen =Mary

<et, dan. of Si
;y Wyatt, cf
igton Castle,
r, Kt., sister
bos. Wyatt,
'©fit. lwife.

of London ; oh.
Sir 1570, bur. in St.
ofjPancrcnsChur.
B,(Wiil P.C.C.
C b,!i8 Uolncy.)

Alice Lee.

liv. 1570,
2 wife.

Elizabeth.

Esq., of Bcnchnmpton, co.
Bucks. ; oh. 1623. (Will
Arch. Bucks., vol. 1623-5,
fol. 109.)

Mary Lee m. Sir George
Tyrrell, of Thorn-
ton, co. Bucks., Kt.

Jane Lcc, ob. 1582.

t. Martins,
London ;
;. p. 1G23 ;
. Edward
ct Book).

George Lee of— Tmlith. dau. of

Higiigatc, co.
Midd'x; oh.
1637. (Will
P. C. C. 84
Goare.)

ryon
rt.

Louisa, ob. 1624.
Elizabeth, ob. 1625.

Basil Nichols,
and widow of

Saxby

of Lond., mer-
chant; in. 3d,

Orwell,

living 16.55.

Robert Lee,
buried at
Hardwick
19 Nov'r,
1616.

Richard Lee.
Anthony Lee.

Both ob. juv.

I I !

Frances, ob. juv.
Elizabeth, oh. jnv.
Mary, m. William

Hall, and left

issue.

ILL,

Margaret, ob. 1«v.
Jovec, bapt at* H.

1577; ob. juv.
Alice, m. Jos.Lake.

jnty Lee, K. G.Tf'<"ey,
10; jKnt'tl 1560 j tin e»

iiurcntlon. Fleet, (

'on & Ditch ley; |

3ll,e.p.v. (Will Eleanor Lee,

C. 41 Wood.) ob. 1640.

Robert Lc

loo of=Joanc George Lec= Winifred Henry Leo

Wcndovcr, living 1655. living liv. 1655.

co. Bucks., 1659. living

gent.; ob. • 1655.

1655, s. n.

(Will P.C.

C. Berkley

33.)

I i I

Helen, m.

Humphrey Vernon;

living 1655.

Lucy, m.

Samuel Winston;

livincr 1655.
Judith,"ob.juv.

jec, ob. inf. ; III
t Aylesbury. t*

!'« W,ll. l:.V; c.., ,;:.,,
Qnarr.'i.l.ni, 11- -■■•■. ; <\.,v.
Qmiiit. mlon . Ii -ncii. II \i>:

. Of-"S'lr Robert l,Oi\ Kill., of HiirMmi^I.rl !„■.■, ,|

,c I m..l 'l.:„.,„.l..i,-. < '..ii-i.l.lc I I', i" ii
tifliiMiirii.li.il. 1*11-'., Si..- i:.l;'.. I

ml ,,! ];..,!.-. I.'/Jl; lln.l. i.| ( • ■! U..I

ilio 1'ih, I'll ..-,".. Ki.o! Ksq.; s

II. nn VIII ; l,r ,.| Ail^-- lli.u.T

Dcnotllcl Lip or niecliiton, co. '

Ur of Pitsona=»Mn-

.' u''iV r'.
rji.,.|,..,

,.1 I"!;'-

lr,-lic, inn

riln!coll=EI™bo||,,uivu.
of Robert
Clieyno of

Chen hair,

I1..I-, Mm,.;

F.lmnn.l I/n of rn-i..i ii, All.. , -Un. nndlicircssnf Sir

I^'of 'Ii!.' m°sin K.I- li'w"'l'i""s, mOv.n', lit.
liiim.1. T. C.l'.l Ait ol.. 1(103; L. r,l A. lo
Hook.) Fon .lolin. (P. C. C.
Act Book.)

Tliomns Lcc.

fiProbnl.ly i.

m. Alice
Lees' of 1

1 'f

III

Il.'iic.lict Lee, oli.
Ijnr. at Cliciilian

I Moil. Ina. rem.

I L:-Q '.1 M'lnrmi —

" :,r, .{: 1 ."'i, ,:

Anthony Browne
tlmny Vine. Mon-

x;;?:

..i.. ii. in. m ii ..-.I.- k.

M..M. I,,-, rem. (U ,11 P.C.
C. 81 Cope.)

ii St A y I..'. Kill— A

U-.I...TI !..'..■ ..I r....i.'..n I"..' I.], - -K..I!:. nil...

P. C. 0. 23 < al :

Robert lxc, of nii]fiel.|=Joane, dan. of rhilip Lie,
John Sweyn
of Binficld.
Il.'ii.v Luc, K, G.;

ob. 1621. (Will
T. 0. C. 76U.de.)

)'„ .I'l.iir

31 l'l...n. ').')'

...lot 10 ltu^in, 11190;

009 : buried at Hard.
. Will P. C. (J. 8

UiFsell Lee, als. lliiwll,
of Qnarrcndon, Ob.
1.569, and L. of Ad.
pr. to Uro. Richard.
P. C. C. Act Book.

llidinid Leo, man ft II

liy. 1G7I; riff of Bu

prob. ob. jny. ob. 1634.

Mary Lecm. Sir George
I'y.T. 1), «.f Thorn-
ton, m. BiicliB., Kt.

Jano Lee, ob. 1682.

Sir Henry Lee, Kn

lair r ; M. Ini.

(Wiiir. c. c. 6
John.)

r Richard E.liva

irl '.,'l IV ir-

icac'lict Lee

George Leo of=Jiiilith. dan. of

Robert Lcc,

Rich ml l,cr.

ol). .-...I. ..nil ■.,. li'Jl:

19 Nov,,

Both oh- JDV.

l.'.rC; ob.

(P. C. C. Act Book).

1016.

Louisa, ob. IU24.

'.C. C. 41 Wood.)

O.T Ann.-, iluu. nf Will lam Tlinmsw U'P, ol

10; I I,,..l I'n-. I, K. O. ; l.ur.f-d -it Qui

,L, I l,»n...l A,k-l.urv il.m; l..„r/

■v ; 31 December, 10'JO. brn. Henry.

Pill ! (Hon. Ins. rem.) C. C. Act E

-Unlifit Lcc, Esq.. cf-=Jnnc,

f Lee, ob. Inf. ; Mary Lee, ob. t

tAylCbbury. bur. nl Avk-sb

12 February, 1

Ilciiry Leo,
thcLccsotYork-

li Lrc, of— Jnmc
it. H.OI

IJiirt.-m.2J, lien-

: ..■x, Hurt.

liiV..',.. iic.IJ.-y,
l/i;./.lifl.ni,ii ( ;-

Fnimrs, ob. Jut. Mnrpiirft, ob. lor.

Ivli/.is.il,, oh. |tiv. Jovif, l.rtr.t. ,it II
Mm.-, in. Willi'iin [',;:-, ,.(, . l,iv.

M:iU. imU left Ali.-.;, m. Jo^.lv.U-.

BoTiert Leo of=J.

Harl,:n.i L-e,--=E«lwnnl ItnynC6ford
only dun. I of Great Tew,
uiifl heir, co. Oxon.

Henry Leo OayncBfbrd,

ofSir JolnilJunvcra

i ),. ■; _^ .SI, ; 1 7 ilictli, dnn. one

in. ::■>, itnlicrl]
SvMlt.r ],iii.l'ioy.
Ob. 1716.

Lees, Karl of Litcbflcld.

1*S00.1 I jee °f Vivginiu* • 111

Dame Anne all plate &c, furniture of great room at Ditchley where .-lie

"• ■■'■■ l;iv in & £1000, her estate free to herself & "I wish that my estate were

'in" a better condition -that I migkt. doe ljuprc/orjier ;" to ^raii«|,m()tHeT

tY>uutess-..of Warwick '£100 for'a~fitgj to' mTsrimrComi fess- rrH^)chv sti :'«•-•
c-ViOO; toHJrbtlief Francis Henry' Lee "~£10'O»Tt -year '& my grey Jioiv. '

' - forarring;T to/cosen . Ellenor Tryou a ring ; to vhcle Sir* 'Walter St". John
!. "V^gOO; Sir Ralph Verney £100 ; to Mr. Carey £50.0 & my ejfe>nnit mare;
40 "Mrs- Jape "Carey his' wife £200 ; to friends Maior Saiwey, Mi-. Rowland
Jeiuvs the elder & Mr. Thos Yates each £50; to poor ministers £0.0 at
disposal .of brother Francis Henry & Mr. Gunning; Mr. Gunning £20 ;
Mr. Samuel Hoare £20; to my wife's gentlewoman Mrs. Kingston £20;
i to Alice Theed £20; to servant Robt. JStheringtou £100 & grey geld'ng;

to servant Loysell £200 ; all the rest of servants a years wages ; Rich.
£ -. Welsh £5; John Tredway £5. Executors — mother, Countess of Rochester
<\c wife Dame Anne Lee. Wit: Tho: Clayton, Robert Etherington,
Phillis Loisell, Charles Gostwycke, Wm : Frauck Lynn.
Proved 1G April 1659 by Executors named in will.
I P. C. C, Pell, 236.

1659.— Will of Dame Anne Lee, Widdow. Dated 15 June 1059. All

I legacies given by will of brother Henry Danvers, Esq.. which remain unpaid

to be discharged. " If the child I now goe with shall happen to be a sonne*'

| daughter Ellinora to have -£5000 at 15 or marriage. ' All estate is lodged

-- in-Trustees, all intrusted for -me to convey same to Sir .Ralph Verney, knt.,

Richard Sal way, Esq., Thomas Yates, Gierke, & John Gaiy.- gent;-, tltev to

-ay debts & legacies with remainder to heirs of my body except £10,000

. to half brother John Danvers, Esq., & balance of personal estate to si>ter

Elizabeth for her life with remainder to heirs of her body. The right

honble Anne Countess of Rochester, mother to late husband; Executrix.

- - In witness Anne Lee. Wit: Sam: Iloaie, Phillipp Loisel, Robert

Ethrington.

Codicil. — Dated 18 July 1G59. To Anne Countess of Rochester my
rliamond pendant; to daughter Ellinora my great pearl necklace ; to my
Lady Elizth. Cane my brothers picture &c. ; to niece Frances Yiilers £50;
to friend Sir Ralph Verney £100; to Maior Selwav & Mr. Rowland
Jenks, the elder, £200; Mr. Tho Yates £500; Mr. Thos Capin, Mr. Robt
Atkins, Mr. Thos Escourt, Mr. William Yorke, Mr. Thos Gunter, £20
2ach ; Sir.. Wm. Baxter & Mr. Nath. Bostocke £50 each ; Lady Butler,
'.vidow, annuity of £20 ; Mr. Thos Danvers of Dantesly annuity of £7;
to cousin Vrsula Hail £20; Mr. Thomas Yates & 31 r. John Gary for
.rouble in managing estate £40 a year till children come of age ; to servant
Gulp* =r Kingstone £50; to servant Robert Ethrington £.100 ; to nurse
T acob ;20 ; to maid Anne Danvers £20; to Katherine Jacob £5: to
>Villia, Yorke £5 ; to John Cooke £5; to poor of Lovington Dauntsey
where, was born. Nuncupative Codicil, states that on 'dl July IG59
bout 8 jr 9 hours before her death spe/tking to Rt. Hon. Viscountess
Wilmot otherwise called Countess Rochester the said Anne Lee gave
certain directions as to her funeral, legacies to servants &c. &c.
Proved 22 December 1G59 by the Executrix named in the will.

P. C. C, Pell, 543.

A tabular pedigree of the Quarrendon family of Lee, compiled by me,
companies this article.

112 Elliots of Kittery, 3fe., and South Carolina. [Jan,

THE ELLIOTS OF KITTERY, ME., AND SOUTH
CAROLINA.

Introductory.

THE editor has received genealogical records of the Elliots of
Kittery, Me., and the Elliotts of South Carolina. THe record
of the Kittery family will be printed in this number of the Register ;
that of the South Carolina family will appear in April. We prefix
to them the following statements from Tuttle's Historical Papers
recently published, pages 338-340 :

Three brothers, John, Robert, and Richard Cutt (in modern times the
name is Cutts), came to New England and settled on the Pascataqua.
Savage states that they were natives of Wales, but upon what authority it
does not appear. The precise date of their immigration has not been de-
termined. John Cutt was an eminent merchant at Portsmouth, in the
Province of New Hampshire, and by appointment of the Crown in 1679
was the first President of the royal government instituted in that Province.
He died in 1G81, and was spoken of as an aged man. He is usually men-
tioned as the eldest of the brothers. In the town records his name does
not appear until Jan. 30, 1653-4; his brother Richard's name is recorded
under date of April 5, 1G52. The last named was at first engaged in the
fisheries at the Isles of Shoals ; but he finally settled at Portsmouth, and
died there in 1G7G.*

Robert was a shipmaster, and resided for some time at Barbados, where
he married his second wife, Mary Hoel. Returning to New England, he
settled at Kittery, in the Province of Maine. Here he carried on the busi-
ness of ship-building. lie died in 1(374, and his will, dated June 18, 1074,
was admitted to probate on the 6th of July next ensuing. His estate was
inventoried at £890; a large sum, says Savage, for that neighborhood.
Among the chattels enumerated were eight negro slaves.

By his wife Mary, Robert Cutt had onef son and four daughters; name-
ly, Mary, Bridget, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Robert. Sometime sulwequent to
1G75 his widow married Cant. Francis Champernowne. As will be seen
by reference to Champernowne's will I, his wife and her children received
by gift or devise the principal part of his estate.

Bridget Cutt married the Rev. William Screven, the first Baptist minister
in Kittery. Having suffered persecution for his religious opinions, and be-
ing finally expelled, he removed to South Carolina, where he helped to
established his religious denomination on a permanent basis. He appears to
have been an able and devoted minister. His descendants are among the
most respected people of South Carolina and Georgia.^

* For the Wills of John and Richard Cutt, see Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth,
First Series, No. 5.

t Champenunvne in his will mentions his son-in-law, Richard Cutt. Hence it has been
interred that this Richard was also a son of Robert and Mary Cutt; hut the inference is
not a necessary one. He may have been a son of Robert Cutt by his first wife. Champer-
nowne bequeathed to him £5.

+ This will is printed in the Register, vol. 27, pp. 146-7.

$ For a notice of Mr. Screven and his labors, see Register for October, 18S9, pp. 146-7.

] 800.1 Elliots of Kittery, Me., and South Carolina. 113

Elizabeth, the fourth daughter of Robert and Mary Cutt, married Ilum-
ithrey Elliot, a resident on the Pascataqua. They had two sons, Robert
and Champemowne. The latter, who was named heir and residuary
legatee by Captain Champemowne, is supposed to have died in South
Carolina.

Humphrey Elliot, with his wife and family, and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Mary Champemowne, accompanied or followed Mr. Screven to South
Carolina, where it is supposed they continued to reside, and where they
died. After the death of Humphrey Elliot his widow married Robert
Witherick, also of South Carolina. Robert, son of Humphrey Elliot,
married Elizabeth Screven, probably a daughter of the Rev. William
Screven. The descendants of the Elliots and Screvens are numerous.

The Elliots of South Carolina and Georgia are for the most part descended
from Joseph and Elizabeth Elliott, who removed from Barbados to South
Carolina previous to 1G97. It is not improbable that the Elliots of Pasca-
taqua and the Elliots of Barbados were originally of the same stock, and
nearly related by blood. Persons bearing this surname have been eminent
in every succeeding generation, in. Church and State, in arms and in civil
life. By inter-marriage the family is connected with many of the families
in South Carolina and Georgia who for more thau a century have been
most distinguished and influential.

The Elliots of Kittery, Me.

1. Robert 1 Elliott, a merchant of Great Island, now New Castle,

N. I~L, and who held various offices of trust and responsibility under
the various governments in the Provinces of New Hampshire and
Maine, among which was the office of councillor, married Sarah,
daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Fryer, long prominent in the affairs
of New Hampshire. They had :

2. i. Humphrey, 3 who m. Elizabeth Cutt, dau. of llobcrt and Mary (Iloel)

Cutt.

ii. . Jane, who m. successively Andrew Peppcrell and Simon Frost.

iii. Elizabeth, who m. Jan. i), 1700, Lt. Gov. George Vaughn, and had
eleven children, of whom the eldest son was William Vaughan, the
first projector of the Louisburg Expedition of 174 4-45.

2. Humfiirey 2 Elliot (Robert 1 ) and his wife, Elizabeth Cutt, had the

following named children, all born, as is supposed, in Kittery, Me. :

3. i. BO'BKRT, 4 m. (1) Feb. 5, 1720-1, Elizabeth Screven, dau. of thellev.

William and Bridget (Cutt) Screven. He in. (2) Elizabeth Har-
ford, of So. Carolina. Jan. 25. 1725-G. who survived her husband, and
m. (2) in 1728, William Rnnns? After his removal to So. Carolina,
Robert Elliot resided in Berkley County. He held the ollice of
tax-commissioner in 1720 and for some years following. His will,
dated July 15, 1727, was proved Jan. 11, 1727-8. He mentions
sons, Artemas and Humphrey ; daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth ;
his mother, Elizabeth Witherick; and Richard Butler, Thomas
Bullin and John Bullin, executors.
ii. CiiAMrHitNOWNE. He signs his mother's bond in 1718. and is fre-
quently mentioned in the records of So. Carolina, 1720-25, as
deputy to the Surveyor General. His name is not found in the
index of Wills and Letters of Administration, and his subsequent
history is unknown.

After the death of Humphrey Elliot, his widow married (2)
Robert Witherick, of Somerton, So. Carolina, who died in 1700.

114 JSfotes and Queries. [Jan.

3. Robert 3 Elliot (Hump/trey, 2 Robert 1 ) and Elizabeth Screven had

children :
4. i. Artemas, 4 who m. Mary, dan. of Charles and Mary Burnliam, June
22, 1744. The will of Artemas, dated April 22, 17G0, and proved
May 1, 17G1, mentions wife Mary and seven daughters, but no
sons, and his cousins, Hugh Ferguson, Thomas Ferguson and
Artemas Ferguson.

ii. Elizabeth. She may have been the wife of Benjamin Williamson,
who had sons, Benjamin and Champernownc.

in. Humphrey, who m. in 1744. Catharine Booth, dan. of Robert Booth,
and granddaughter of William Elliott, and had issue, ID& widow
m. (2) in 1757, Thomas Ferguson, and d. Feb. 11, 17G0.

iv. Dorothy.

4. Artemas 4 Elliott (Robert, 3 Humphrey, 2 Robert 1 ) and Mary Burn-

ham had children :

i. Mary,* m. 1703, Robert Cochran.

ii. Margaret, m. 1773, James Darby, from whom descended the
numerous Darby family of So. Carolina.

iii. Charlotte.

iv. Anne. Her will, dated 20 Dec. 1800, was proved 25 April, 1S04.
She mentions her niece, Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot Bremar, wife of
Francis Bremar, and her nephew, Artemas Burnliam Darby.

v. Eleanor.

vi. Elizabeth, m. 1773, Lewis Lestargette.

vii. Henrietta.

[To be continued.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Notes.

Peculiarities in Birth Bates. — There are peculiarities in birth-rates which
must be familiar to genealogists, but Which probably are rarely made the subject
of comment. Without proposing to designate the family, a brief notice will be
given of the peculiarity in one instance which may be regarded as of a striking
character. In the family in question there were thirteen children, ten sons and
three daughters. Incidentally it -may be stated that in the family of a brother
of the mother, there were twelve or thirteen children, nearly all of whom were
girls. The product of the family n&ntioued has been not less than twice as
great among the daughters as among the more numerous sons. Two of the ten
sons died young, four never married, although living to middle aize. or beyond,
and of the four married, there was no issue in one ease. The oldest daughter
had two sons and six daughters, one of the latter dying young. < hie of her sons
had one son and, one daughter, the son only havinir issue, and the other son had
one son. with no probability of issue. The oldest daughter had two sons, and
in that direction the family will become extinct. From several daughters the
family in their line is numerous. Another daughter was blessed only with two
daughters. A third daughter had several sons. A fourth married, but had no issue,
and the fifth never married. The immediate or principal family names, it will be
seen, will be little known from these issues. To return to the original family
under consideration, the second daughter had two daughters, both of whom died
in infancy. The third daughter had three sons and three daughters, and of the
daughters but one married and had a daughter. In this direction that family
became extinct. One of the sons had one son and three daughters, and they
may be a thriving race. Another son had one of each sex. Of the children of
the oldest son of the first mentioned family, there were two sons and three
daughters, none of the latter marrying, The' oldest son had three daughters,
but one having issue, and the other sou three sons. The second son, as above,

&*****«

1890.]

Notes and Queries,

115

Lrul two daughters, and one son who died in infancy. The daughters married
ind'had issue, the oldest having one of each sex, the son only marrying and the
uther two sons, one dying young and the other is not known as having i-suc.
Incidentally, too, it may be said in this ease, that the mother, on a second
marriage, had two more daughters, both of whom married, and one of them had
two sons and the other no issue. The third married son of the original family
had three sons and two daughters, one of eaeli dying young. The only issue as
ret, is that of the remaining- daughter, who has a daughter nearly grown.
" It will be seen, then, that of the original family name, there is not likely to be
as ninny in the third generation as there were in tin; first. Turning back again, a
leal in genealogy, there were three times as many daughters as sons, and in one
of these branches, of six sons, there were scarcely as many of the name in the
third generation as there were in the first, with perhaps about as many in the
fourth. R. a.

Lying at Hull. — A correspondent writes to us as follows: "There is a
curious error in the Prince Society's Edition of Morton's 'New English Canaan,'
to which I thought I would call your attention, as it may prove a trap for some
innocent investigator to fall into. On page 21 of the Introduction it rends that
♦At Hull, already known by that name" (referring to Nantasket), and refers
forward in a note to page 1«1 (337), where we read again, ' blow it high, blow it
low, hee was resolved to lye at Hull rather than encounter,' etc.

" The editor takes this to mean the place now called Hull, but a proper reading
of the text shows that Morton was using a common nautical expression of his
day to work out his satirical figure, which he turns off with evident satisfaction.

" 'Lying at Hull,' as here used, means, in old sea-faring parlance, either lying
at anchor, or stripping a ship of her canvas in order that she may the better
ride out a storm. Look at the text and see if that was not what Morton had in
mind."

Monumental Inscription in tiie City of York, relating to America. —
I enclose a transcript of an inscription to a New York person in a church in
York which I thought might interest your readers.

York, St. Martin le Grand. Near this Flacc Lieth Interred the Body of Jane, |
Daughter of Jacob and Sarah Webson, of New York | In North America ; | And
"Wife to William Fowler of Selby | in this County, j who Died at York on the
13 th Day of May 1 792, | Aged 35 Years.

[In capitals, mural tablet North Chapel.]
Gainford Vicarage, Darlington, England. R. H. Eixleston.

Queries.

Newdigate. — John Newdigate (sometimes spelled Newgate) was in Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1G31. He was born about 1580 in Southwark, near London
Bridge. He came to this country with his third wife Ann, and their children.

This wife had been previously married, first to Hunt, secondly to

Draper. Their daughter Hannah married Mr. Simon Lynde, a wealthy merchant
of Boston, son of Enoch Lynde, a shipping merchant of London, of the Dutch
Van der Linden family, whose wife was Elizabeth, great-great-granddaughter
of Sir John Digby, of Eye Kettleby and Lincolnshire.

John Newdigate was a son of Phillip Newgate or Newdigate, of Hornings-
heath, co. Suffolk. In an early will, dated 1665, John Newdigate gives a legacy
to his third wife's sister who had married William Newdigate, his uncle's son,
living in London. Who was his wife?

In a pedigree of the Lynde family prepared by Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde,
2d, grandson of Simon and Hannah (Newdigate) Lynde, copied from an
earlier paper, in mentioning his grandfather " John Newdigate " he adds, " see
arms in margent." in Newport, on the tombstone of Sarah Lynde, "wife of the
second Nathaniel Newdigate, grandson of John and Ann Newdigate, she is called
''uxor Nathaniel Newdigate armigeri." The arms were omitted. What arms
did John Newdigate bear? Did he descend from the same ancestry as the

\ *

116

Notes and Queries.

[Jan.

Newdig&tes of county Surrey and Warwickshire, or any of the heraldic families
of that name now existing in England?

Nathaniel, son of John and Ann Newdigate, born in England in 1027, married
in England, Isabella daughter of Sir John Lewis. Nathaniel Newdigate, in his
will dated Sept. 8, 1GI58, calls himself " Newdigate alias Newgate of Loudon,
merchant." He makes his "Brother Sir .John Lewis, of Ledston, in the
countie of York," one of the overseers of his will. What is known of Sir John
Lewis, and his son Sir John Lewis of Ledston, York? Are there any descend-
ants of this Newdigate family still living in England? The information is
desired by Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Salisbury, of New Haven, Conn., for a large
genealogical work now approaching completion. t

Digby Arms. — Can any one tell the writers where the combined arms of the
early Digby family can be found?

Queen Elizabeth's Cipher. — On a linen table-cover, with needlework said to
have been wrought by Princess Elizabeth" (afterwards Queen) when she was in
captivity, there is a cipher which can be compared to a flat, nearly square bug, with
a handle over most of the top; or to a padlock, as it has what may be a keyhole
near the centre of the square. There is a smaller square inside of the larger one.
The table-cloth belonged to Deputy Governor Francis Willoughby, and has been
kept since his time as a precious relic in one line of his descendants. It brings with
it, through the generations, the tradition referred to, and is said to have been given
by Princess Elizabeth to her relative, a Willoughby, who was her maid-of-honor
and who shared her captivity, and from her came to the family of Deputy Gover-
nor Willoughby. It appears by history that Lady Margaret Willoughby (sister
of Sir Francis of Wollaton, whose two daughters married into the Willoughby
D'Eresby family), a cousin of Princess Elizabeth, was her maid-of-honor at the
time referred to. This old tradition lias another singular confirmation in the
fact that in the inventory of Judge Nathaniel Lynde, who married Susannah.
only daughter of Deputy Governor Willoughby, among a large quantity of
silver, there is mentioned '-Queen Elizabeth's cup." In writing a genealogical
account of our Willoughbys, we are trying to follow every clew by which to
trace their history and prove their traditions. Can we learn whether Q ueen
/Elizabeth ever used such a cipher as the one we have tried to describe?

Please address Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Salisbury, New Haven, Conn.

Doctor Benjamin Page, surgeon in the Kevolutionary Army, was with Gen.
Stark throughout the war. — What was his family relation* (if any) to Gen. Stark?-

After the war Dr. Page settled in Chester, N. II. , afterwards lived in Exeter,
where his sons were educated at Phillips Academy, about 1800 moved to
Hallowell, Maine, where he remained in the successful practice of his profes-
sion until his death in 1824. William H. Page.

Greenport, Suffolk Co,, X. T.

Canadian Captives. — Information wanted as to the parentage of French,

carried captive when an infant to Canada, date unknown. Re-baptized there as
Andre. Married there in 1713. Wrongly believed by his Canadian descendants
to have been the son of Thomas French of Deeriield.

On early Canadian records he stands as Andre Fry or Fray, which in later
documents is changed to Freinch, Frinch and French.

Perhaps Andre French, Fray or Fry was kin to Richard Fry, New England
captive, married at Three Rivers in 1723. Any facts as to the parentage of
either, gratef ully received and acknowledged by C. Alice Baker.

Cambridge, Mass.

Jones. — Enos Jones, born in Sutton, Worcester co., in 1734, with wife Antipas
or Amplias went to West Haven, Vt., in 1708, and was drowned there in 1803.
He had sons Samuel, Daniel, Joel and Asahel, and perhaps others.

Asa Jones, born in Sutton, 1730, with wife Dorcas and son Iasac, born 176-L
settled in Royalston, where he was deacon of the Baptist Church.

Information wanted of their descendants. E. D. Harris.

280 Broadway, Xew York city.

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Fcll Names "Wanted. — The undersigned is desirous of obtaining the full
names of the following gentlemen who were formerly members of the Ncav
England Historic Genealogical Society, and will he greatly obliged to any one
who will assist him,. The date prefixed to the name is that of admission to the
society. 1850 — William M. Wallace, then of Boston. 1853 — Samuel G. Wheeler,
,!r., of Concord, Peter S. Wheelock of Boston, Samuel II. Gilbert of Gage Town,
New Brunswick. 1855 — Thomas E. Graves of Thompson, Conn., Horatio N.
Bigclow of Clinton (died there January 2, 1808), Lewis II. Webb of Rocking-
ham, N. C, later of Virginia. 1858 — Franklin II. Sprague of Boston. 1850 —
Rev. DenzilM. Crane (died at South Acton Sept. 4, 1879). 1802— Edward M.
Endicott of Boston. 18G4 — Ebenezer B. Foster of Boston (died in Cambridge
August 2G, 1870). 1805— George S. Page of Brooklyn, N. Y., William S.
Anderson of Boston, William V. Spencer of Boston. 1800 — Abel B. Berry of
Randolph, Albert W. Lovering Of Koxbury. 1807 — James P. Bush of Boston,
William H. Osborne of East Brlclgewater: 18G8 — C. Horace Hubbard of Spring-
field, Vt., John D. Towle of Boston. 1809 — Nathan II. Daniels of Boston,
Nathan B. Chamberlain of Newtonvillc, Jeremiah L. Newton of Boston. 1875
— Janus G. Elder, Lewiston, Me. 1878 — Henry C. Haydeu, Ncwtonville. 1881
—Rev. Henry A. Cooke, Boston. 1884 — Harrie C. Brownell, Ncwtonville. 1885
—Jerome F. Maiming, Lowell. 1887 — Rev. William W. Campbell, West Clare-
mont, N. H.

Geo. Kuhn Clarke,
Chairman of Committee on the Bolls of Membership.

Tubbs. — The Hinman Papers contain the following entry : — " Tubbs, Samuel,
married Ann Chapman, Jan. — 1751."

Can any one inform me who were the parents and the place or places of
residence of this Samuel Tubbs?

Osceola, Tioga County, Penn. Charles Tubbs.

Replies.

Newington Church Records. — In the Church Records of Newington, N. H.,
Register, Vol. 22, page 27, is the following entry: "7 May, 1752, Mr. Will
Shackford and Mrs. Patience Bow married." And on page 4-4 9,

" 8 Oct. 1732. Mary daughter of Joseph and Mary Shackford ow. cov. and was
baptized."

During the month of August last I spent several days at Newington, and
examined carefully the old church record book kept by Rev. Joseph Adams, and
found therein recorded the marriage of Will Shackford and Mrs. Patience Doze-
ning, May 7, 1752. The record also shows that Mary, daughter of Joshua, and
Mary Shackford. ow. cov. and was baptized Oct. 8. 1752.

The name Dow ning and Josh ua are each, half at the ending of a line, and
half at the beginning of the following lines. There, evidently, has been a mis-
take in copying or printing, which is misleading and perplexing,

187 Cass /St., Chicago, 111. Samuel Shacktord.

Historical Intelligence.

British Record Society. — The " Index Library," which has now been pub-
lished monthly for two years, " was projected for the purpose of printing
Indexes and Calendars to such Records as are of value and utility to the histori-
an, the genealogist and topographer." This periodical publication lias met with
such general approval, that on the 28th of November last The British liecord
Society was instituted for " printing Indexes, Calendars and Records, illustra-
tive of the Genealogy and Topography of Great Britain as hitherto issued in
the Index Library." The society was organized by the choice of a council of
ten members and other officers. A full board will be chosen at the first general

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meeting of the society, which we hope to give in the next number of the Reg-
ister, with full details of the society's objects. The chairman of the council is
C. I. Elton, Q.C., M.P., F.S.A. ; and among the members are G. E. Cokaync,
M.A., F.S.A., Norroy King of Anns; Mr. Phillimore, the editor of the [ndex
Library; J. C- Challoner {Smith, Esq., superintendent of the Literary Depart-
ment Probate Registry at Somerset House; and Henry F. Waters, A.M. Ap-
plication for membership should be addressed to W. 1'. W. Phillimore, M.A.,
B.C.L., honorary secretary, 124. Chancery Lane, London, W. C, who is also
the general editor. The annual dues are one guinea a year, payable in January.
An entrance fee of half a guinea will be required of members who join after
April 1, 1800. The works of the society are to be issued in parts, not less than
four a year. We hope that many applications for membership in this useful
society Will be received from our own country.

New England Society's Money Accounts 1653-1664, Old Ms. — In one of
my old note books taken some time in 1873 or 1874, I find the following entry
which may be serviceable to some historian. It is entered as from, " Gloucester
[New Jersey] Records, Liber G, No. 1," which are in the Secretary of State's
Office at Trenton, N. J. " On a few reversed pages in the back of this volume
are the money accounts of the New England Society from 1(353 to 1GG4. Inter-
esting " I personally examined these records at the date above and made the
foregoing notes.

Camden, New Jersey. William Joiin Potts.

The Dedham Historical Register. — Under this title the Dedham Historical
Society propose publishing a quarterly periodical. " The object of the pub-
lication," the prospectus states, "will be to preserve in a permanent form all
manuscript papers of an historical character, and to encourage a taste for the
study of local history. It will aim to present the phases of social life within
the original township of Dedham since its settlement, and the relation of the
town to the history of the times." The Register will contain various matters
relating to the town, such as : — Proceedings of the Dedham Historical Society and
its work. History, growth and progress of Dedham. Prize essays of graduat-
ing classes of High School. Biographical sketches and Bibliography. Gene-
alogies, diaries and family papers. Anecdotes and reminiscences of life in
Dedham. Church and town records within Ancient Dedham. These papers
will be illustrated from time to time. The first number will be issued this month,
and the price of the quarterly will be one dollar per year. It is intended to be
a repository of all matters relating to Dedham, and indirectly Norfolk County.
Julius II. Tuttle is the editor, and M. G. Boyd, Dedham, the business manager.

Ttjttle's Historical Papers. — A volume entitled Capt. Francis Champer-
nowne, the Dutch Conquest of Acadie, and other historical papers, by Charles
Wesley Tuttle, Esq., Ph.D., edited by Albert Harrison Hoyt, A.M., with his-
torical notes, and a memoir of the author by John Ward Dean, A.M., has just
been published. Pursuant to the will of Mrs. Mary Louisa Tuttle, a selection of
Mr. Tuitl ''s historical papers has been edited for the press. Besides the memoir
of Mr. Tuttle by Mr. Dean, and a sketch of the life of his widow by Mrs.
Harriet Prescott Spofford, the volume comprises a number of papers on his-
torical subjects.

The beautiful volume is illustrated with a portrait of Mr. Tuttle; views in
England and this country; a map, and fab-similes.

The edition is limited to three hundred copies. The volume, including the
index, comprises 442 pages, small 4to., printed on superior paper, uncut, and
bound in muslin. Price $4.00. For sale by Damrell & Upham, 283 Washington
Street, Boston, Mass. A full notice is promised us for the April Register.

History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, N. II.—
Frederick Chase of Hanover, N. H., has in preparation a book by this title.
It will be published in two volumes. The first, covering the period prior to
1815, will contain upwards of 000 pages with an index. The price will be $3.50
a volume. Subscriptions should be sent in early.

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Early Maryland Settlers. — William Francis Cregar, Esq., of Annapolis,
Md.i h*s devoted much time during the last two years to the preparation of a
Hstof the persons who arrived in Maryland between the years 1634 and LG83.
He lias a complete alphabetical list of the arrivals in that colony daring that
period, numbering about eighteen thousand names, gleaned from the demands
for land recorded in the Provincial Land Records. He has also a series of
alphabetical abstracts of all the depositions and pedigrees recorded in the
Maryland Chancery Proceedings, between the years 16(58 and 17 ( J0. lie is now
enj^i^ed in preparing a genealogical and historical index to the text of a series
of^forty volumes, containing a record of all the wills proved in the various
counties of Maryland between the years 1G34 and 1777. We hope that, this
work will be printed.

Lite and Times of Ephraim Cutler. — Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincin-
nati, O., have in press a volume with this title. It is prepared from Mr.
Cutler's journals and correspondence by his daughter, Julia P. Cutler. Ephraim
Cutler was the eldest son of Rev. Manasseh Cutler and born in 17(37 in Connec-
ticut, went to Ohio in 1705 and died in that state in 185;]. lie contributed to
the Register an article on "New England and the West,'" which was printed
in vol. vii., pp. 21)7-300, The work will make an octavo of over 300 pages,
uniform with the Life, etc., of Rev. Manasseh Cutler. Price $2.50. A limited
edition is printed.

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. — Work on the General Catalogue, so
long delayed, has been resumed, and the first edition, covering the period from
1778 to 1830, will be issued in February next. Information is solicited from the
pupils themselves, or their friends, including especially notices of changed
address or of recent deaths.

In preparation for the complete Catalogue, all later students are also requested
to communicate with the Committee, giving date of their connection with the
school and full facts as to subsequent education and occupation, with any
degrees received or offices held; correspondence to be addressed to

Andover, Mass. Rev. C. C. Carpenter.

Americans of Royal Descent. — Charles II. Browning, Esq., of Ardmore,
Peun., is revising, with the intention of republishing, his collection of geneal-
ogies, entitled " Americans of Royal Descent," and would like corrections and
additions to his book sent to him as soon as possible.

Connecticut Colonial Records. — Charles J. Hoadly, A.M., the editor of
these Records, has in press the fifteenth and concluding volume, covering the
period from May, 1775, to October, 1770. It will be an interesting volume, and
will probably be out in March next.

Genealogies in Preparation. — Persons of the several names are advised to
furnish the compilers of these genealogies with records of their own families
and other information which they think may be useful. We would suggest that
all facts of interest illustrating family history or character be communicated,
especially service under the U. S. government, the holding of other offices,
praduation from college or professional schools, occupation, witli places and
dates of birth, marriages, residence and death. When there are more than one
christian name they should all be given in full if possible. No initials should be
used when the full* names are known.

Breck.— Bvt. Brig. Gen. Samuel Breck, U.S.A., Adjutant General's office,
War Department, Washington, D. C, has in preparation a genealogy of the
Breck family. The book will be illustrated at an expense of live hundred
dollars. Price $5.00 a copy.

Champion.— Francis B. Trowbridge, P. O. Box 1G05, New Haven, Ct., is
Preparing a genealogy of the Champion family.

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Hildreth.— Henry O. Ilildrcth, Esq. (10 Remington St., Cambridge, Mass.),
is preparing a history and genealogy of the Hildreth family, and will be grate-
ful for contributions from those interested In the subject.

Parker. — John L. Parker, Esq., editor of the Lynn Daily Item and author of
the History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Regiment, has in preparation
a genealogical and biographical history of Abraham Parker, of Woburn and
Chelmsford, and his descendants from 1040 to 1881). lie requests all persons
interested to furnish materials or facts for use iu the work as soon as
possible. His address is Box 114, Lynn, Mass.

SOCIETIES AND THEIR PROCEEDINGS.

New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Boston, 3Iassachu setts. Wednesday, May 1, 1889. — A monthly meeting was
held this day at 3.30 P.M. in the hall in the Society's House, 18 Somerset St.,
the president, Abner Cheney Goodell, Jr., A.M., in the chair. The recording
secretary, D. G. Haskins, Jr., A.M., being absent, the Rev. E. II. Byington was
choosen secretary pro tern.

Col. Thomas Weutworth Higginson read a paper entitled, "How to Study
History."

Hamilton Andrews Hill, A.M., the historiographer, reported memorial sketches
of four members, — Prof. William Gammell, LL.D., vice-president of this
Society and president of the Rhode Island Historical Society ; Rear Admiral
"William Rogers Taylor, U.S.A., Stanton Blake and Dr. Jerome 11. Kidder.

June 5. — A. monthly meeting was held this afternoon in the Society's House,
President Goodell in the chair.

Mr. William B. Weeden, of Providence, R. I., read a paper on " Early New
England Currency." Mr. Haskins, the recording secretary, reported that 15
books and 10 pamphlets had been received as donations in the month of May.

The historiographer reported the deaths of three members, — William Henry
Montague, Rev. Henry W. Eoote, A.M., and Erederick M. Ballon.

It was voted that until a librarian be elected, the chairman of the library
committee perform the duties.

The president announced the receipt of a bequest of one thousand dollars
from the late Cyrus Woodman, A.M.

A memorial notice of Mr. Woodman, prepared by Charles Deane, LL.D.,
chairman of a committee appointed at a previous meeting, was read by Col.
Higginson.

The president announced that Mr. William II. Montague; whoso death is
reported by the historiographer at this meeting, A\as one of the fire original
members and founders of this Society, and the last survivor of them. The
other founders were Messrs. Charles Ewer, Lemuel Shattitck. Samuel (i. Dr:«ke
and John Wingate Thornton. A committee will be appointed to prepare suit-
able resolutions for the action of the Society.

October 3. — The first meeting after the summer recess was held this afternoon
in Jacob Sleeper Hall, 12 Somerset Street, the chapel of Boston University.
President Goodell occupied the chair.

Rev. Alfred P. Putnam, D.D., of Concord, read a paper on " Gen. Moses
Porter, an unrecognized Hero of American History."

Thanks were voted to Charles Deane, LL.D., of Cambridge, for some manu-
script volumes of collections relating to the Deane Family made by William
Reed Deane, whose daughter, Miss Abby Weston Deane, had bequeathed them
to the donor.

Old Colony Historical Society.

Taunton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1889. — A quarterly meeting was held in
Historical Hall, the president, Rev. Samuel Hopkins Emery, in the chair.

Prof. John Ordronaux of New York city read a paper on " Corporations as

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the great Commercial Forces of these Modern Times." Prof. Ordronaux formerly
resided iu Taunton, was the first corresponding secretary of this Society and
devised its seal. Remarks on the paper Mere made by several members.

Mr. Neils Arnzen, chairman of the committee on protecting Dighton Hock,
submitted his report. Capt. John W. I). Hall, the secretary and librarian, re-
ported a long list of donations received since the last meeting.

RnoDE Island Historical Society.

providence, Tuesday, May 14, 1880. — A meeting was held in the Society
Cabinet this evening, Gen. Horatio Rogers, vice-president, in the chair. A
paper was read by Mr. William J. Iloppin, ex-secretary of Legation in London,
entitled, " Curiosities of Historical Portraiture." Remarks by several members
followed.

Wednesday, June 5. — A special meeting was held this evening to hear and act
on a report of Mr. Alfred Stone, in behalf of the committee on the enlargement
of the Society's building. Mr. Stone showed sketches of his proposed addi-
tions, and on motion of Dr. Caldwell, it was

Voted, That the Committee be instructed to obtain estimates and proposals
for the addition to the present building on the plan submitted to them, and pro-
ceed to its construction as soon as practicable.

Tuesday, July 2. — A quarterly meeting "was held this afternoon at three o'clock,
vice-president Rogers in the chair. Charles W. Parsons, M.D., first vice-
president, was unanimously elected president of the Society to iill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Prof. William Gammed, LL.l). Dr. Parsons de-
clined to accept the Office on account of impaired health, and Gen. Horatio
Rogers, second vice-president, was then elected president. Hon. George M.
Carpenter was chosen second vice-president to fill the vacancy caused by Gen.
Rogers's election to the presidency.

Hon. Amos Perry, the librarian, reported 50 bound volumes, 201 unbound
volumes and pamphlets and 33 other articles as donations during the last quarter.

Mr. W. P. Ely, chairman of a special committee, reported that Gen. Rogers
had accepted an invitation to deliver an historical address before the Society on
the centenary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution by the State of Rhode
Island, to be observed May 29, 1800.

Remarks were made by president Rogers and Mr. Ely in relation to the recent
unveiling of the monument erected on Pequot Hill, Groton, Conn., in honor of
Capt. John Mason, who at this place led the allied forces to victory over the
lVquots, May 20, 1G37.

Mr. Perry, the secretary, then read an " Historical Sketch of the Rhode Island
Historical Society," which he had prepared. Thanks werevoted for his earnest
study into the history of the Society, and for his clear and painstaking exposition
of the same. It was also voted to print the paper in the Society's next annual
pamphlet.

Tuesday, October 1. — A quarterly meeting was held in the Soeiety's Cabinet
this evening, the Hon. George M. Carpenter, vice-president, iu the chair.

Mr. Southwirk reported in behalf of the building committee that satisfactory
progress had been made in the additions to the building authorized by the
Society,

Mr. William E. Poster spoke of the great need of piv-erving the earliest
records of the city of Providence by printing them. On his motion it was voted
that a petition to the city council that the records be printed, be signed by the
Rhode Island Historical Society and circulated for signatures among its members
and the members of the Providence bar.

On motion of Prof. Jameson a resolution was passed for the collection of
biographical data relative to members of the Society.

Dr. James O. Whitney, of Pawtucket, read a paper on " The Location of
Pierce's Fight."

Tuesday, October 10.— The first of the Society's winter course of fortnightly
addresses, for this season, was held this evening, president Rogers in the chair.

1>ro f James M. Iloppin, D.D., read a paper entitled, "An Old English
Chronicle," describing Ingulph's Chronicle. Remarks on the paper by several
members followed.

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Maine Historical Society.

Portland, Thursday, November 21, 1880. — The fall meeting was held this
afternoon in the Society's rooms, Baxter Building, the president, James PManey
Baxter, A.M., in the chair.

Mr. Hubbard W. Bryant, the librarian, presented his annual report of acces-
sions to the library.

Rev. H. S. Barrage, D.D., read a paper on "The Beginnings of Waterville
College, with a Sketch of its First President, Bev. Jeremiah Chaplin, D.D."

The meeting was then adjourned till the evening, to be held in the upper hall.

Evening Meeting.— -The Society met at 7.30 P.M. President Small of Colby
University delivered an address on "The Premises and Metiiod of American
Constitutional History."

Virginia Historical Society.

Richmond, Saturday, November 23, 1889. — A meeting of the executive com-
mittee was held at 8 o'clock this evening at the Society's room in the Westmore-
land Club House, Mr. Valentine in the chair.

Many gifts of books and other articles were reported. The original manu-
script proceedings of a " Committee held at Captain George Weedon's in Fred-
ericksburg, Va., on Monday, October 30, 1775," at which Fielding Lewis, Gent.,
presided, had been presented by Mrs. Mary Sterling Payne of Hopkinville, Ky.
The committee appear to have been officers of volunteer companies, and the
object of the meeting was to appoint a time and place for a general rendezvous
of the minute companies of the colony. It was llxed on the 10th of November
following, at Fredericksburg.

NECKOLOGY OF THE NEW-EXGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

Prepared by Hamilton Andrews Hill, A.M., Historiographer of the Society.

The Historiographer would inform the Society, that the sketches prepared
for the Register are necessarily brief in consequence of the limited space
which can be appropriated. All the facts, however, which can be gath-
ered are retained in the Archives of the Society, and will aid in more ex-
tended memoirs for which the " Towne Memorial Fund,"' the gift of the
late William B. Towne, is provided. Four volumes, printed at the charge
of this fund, entitled " Memorial Biographies," edited by the Commit-
tee on Memorials, have been issued. They contain memoirs of all the
members who have died from the organization of the society to the year
1862. A fifth volume is in preparation.

The Hon. William Johnson Bacon. LL.D., a corresponding member, ad-
mitted December 9, 1870, was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts. February
18, 1803, and died in Utica, N. Y., July 8. 1*89. His grandfather, John Bacon,
began his public life as a clergyman, lint after a few years entered upon a
political career; he was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, was graduated iu
17G5 from the College of New Jersey, and* was ordained in the Presbyterian
Church. He preached for some time in Somerset County, Maryland, and. in
1771, was installed as one of the pastors of the Old South Church, Boston.
The Rev. John Hunt, Harvard College 17G4, was ordained and installed on the
same day. ])r. YVisner says:—" They were both men of talents and promise.
Mr. Bacon's style of preaching was argumentative; his manner approaching
the severe ; Mr. Hunt was descriptive and pathetic, and peculiarly atlectionate

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and winning in conversation and public speaking." Mr. Bacon's pastorate in
Boston coutinued for less than four and a half years. There were differences
of opinion on some of the theological questions of the day, between him and
bis people, which, with other circumstances, led to lus resignation; but he
afterward received a formal expression from the church of its high respect and
regard for him personally. In the meantime he had married the widow of a
predecessor in the Old South pulpit, the Itev. Alexander Cumraing, a daughter
of Mr. Ezekiei Goldthwaite. He moved from Boston to Stoekbridge and
entered upon civil life, although for a time lie preached occasionally. He
became a justice of the peace, a representative in the legislature, associate and
presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a member and president of the
state senate and a member of Congress. He died in 1824). His son, Ezekiei
Bacon, graduated from Yale College in 171)4, and, in the course of his political
career, was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, chief justice of the
Circuit Court, a representative in Congress, and, for two years, first comptroller
of the treasury in Washington. In 1811 he moved to the shores of Cayuga
Lake in the state of New York, and, a year later, settled in Utica, where he took
rank at once as one of the prominent citizens of the place, and where he exert-
ed a highly beneficial influence both in public and private life while he lived.

William Johnson, son of Ezekiei Bacon, was not fortunate in his teachers,
while fitting for college, some of whom he describes as " coarse, ill-tempered
and brutal men." There was, however, one " blissful exception," when, for a
year, he "came under the teaching and magnetic influence of that wonderful
orator and preacher," the Rev. Sylvester Lamed, who had just been graduated
from Middlebury College, and who taught for a year at Pittsfield, before going
to Andover and Princeton, to pursue his theological studies. He was settled
over the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, in 1S17. and died three years
later. Mr. Bacon graduated at Hamilton College, in 1822, at the age of nine-
teen; he' took his master's degree in course, and, in 1854* his college bestowed
that of LL.D. upon him. After graduation he entered the law office of Joseph
and Charles P. Kirkland, and studied there for a year; he then spent a year in
the celebrated law school under Judge Gould, in Litchfield. Connecticut. Of this
latter period, he afterward wrote: — " It was a most profitable year to me, and
whatever of position I may be deemed to have attained in the legal tribunals,
or as a judge presiding in the courts of this state, I owe mainly to the hard work
I performed in what was then the first and best laAv school in the land." Re-
turning to the same ollice in Utica for part of another year, in order to acquire
a knowledge of the practice of the law, more complicated then than now, he
was called to the bar, and entered upon his profession in 1824. He was some-
what diverted, however, the next year, from the path he had marked out for
himself, by engaging with a friend, as joint proprietor and editor of a news-
paper. " I continued," he wrote, "in this enterprise only about two years,
when I disposed of my interest to my then partner, and retired wholly from
editorial life, having lost some money, but gained an experience which has
proved, as I think, of some value to me."

In 1812 Mr. Bacon entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Charles
P. Kirkland, and the two remained together nearly twenty years, building up a
large and successful practice, until 1>">1, when Mr Kirkland moved to the < ity
of New York. Mr. Bacon continued the business for three years, and until, in
the autumn of 1853, he was elected judge of the Supreme Court : he remained
on the bench until 1870, " since which." he wrote, " I have never resumed
practice, but contented myself with giving counsel, mostly gratuitous, and in
trying cases as referee for many years, until I began to rind it irksome, and
declined any further service in that capacity, and ended a legal career which
had continued for more than half a century." Of his opinions as a judge of the
Supreme Court, and as a member, in his turn, in the Court of Appeals, it has
been said since his death : " they are clear, closely reasoned, well weighed, with
more literary merit than is common in law books."

Judge Bacon followed his father and grandfather, not only in eminent service
on the bench, but as a representative in the legislature of his state, and as a
member of Congress. He was a wonderfully enterprising and busy man, for,
outside of his profession, he took an active and leading interest in public
improvements of every kind, including turnpikes, railroads, banks, manufac-
tories, and in educational, philanthropic and religious affairs. "Jfew persons

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ever held so many positions of trust;" and in the " Utica Herald" of July 4,
1889, a foil record of his services in this regard is given. Eor several years he
was a vice-president of the Oneida Historical Society, and, in 1870, he became a
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He was also a
trustee of Hamilton College.

Judge Bacon was called to deliver occasional addresses, and performed the
service, we are told, with graceful and impressive eloquence. One of his most
successful platform efforts was his welcome to Kossuth, the Hungarian lender,
in 1852. He printed a memorial to his only son Adjutant William Kirkland
Bacon, who was killed at Fredericksburg in December, 18G2, and a tribute to
his daughter Miss Fanny E. Bacon, in 1881. " Even to his last days, he wrote
with great facility, with unwavering accuracy, and with beauty of force no* often
surpassed." "His character," says the full and appreciative obituary notice,
from which we have quoted freely in this sketch, " was symmetrical beyond
that of most men, combining in society, the church and the state, high useful-
ness, with rare graces and accomplishments."

Judge Bacon married first, Eliza, daughter of General Joseph Kirkland, who
died in 1872; and, secondly, Mrs. Susan Sloan Gillette, of New York, who
survived him. By his first marriage he had four children, of whom only one
survived their father, Cornelia, wife of Mr. S. W. Crittenden, of Utica.

The Rev. George Archibald Smith, M.A., a corresponding member ad-
mitted June 1-4, 188G, died at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, June 28, 1889,
in the 87th year of his age. He was born in Alexandria, of English pa-
rentage, at the beginning of the year 1S02. At the age of sixteen he became a
communicant at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which the Rev. William Wil-
mer was minister. After a collegiate course at Princeton he graduated, in 1821.
In preparation for the work of the ministry, he studied first at the General
Theological Seminary of New York, and then at the Theological Seminary of
Virginia. At this latter institution he was graduated in the summer of 1823,
being its first alumnus. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Moore in December
of the same year. His active ministry covered a period of sixty years. His
first settlement was at Christ Church, Norfolk, which he was obliged to
resign at the end of the year, owing to the temporary failure of his
voice. After a rest, he took charge of the parishes of Culpeper, Madison
and Orange, for four years. In the spring of 1830 he went to Europe, with
Dr. Milnor of New York, his companionship with whom, led, on his return
to America, to his assuming the editorship of the "Episcopal Recorder,"
Philadelphia. He held this position for eight years, and was very successful in
it. Eailure of health compelled his return to his native state, and. in 1837, he
opened a classical school at Clarens, near the Theological Seminary, and he con-
tinued at its head for sixteen years, exercising a strong and helpful influence
upon the youth committed to his care. During this time, in 1S47, he was
induced by Bishop Meade to undertake the editorship of the " Southern Church-
man," and he held it until 1855. The ill health of a daughter made it necessary to
break up the Clarens home, and Mr. Smith found employment for a time as an
agent for the Board of Foreign Missions of his Church. He again settled at
Alexandria, and opened a small select school for boys, laboring unoilicially
as a minister of thegospel. In January. 18G3, he moved to Amherst, Virginia, and
preached there until the close of tin- war. when lie returned to Alexandria. He
preached, as he had opportunity, for several years, without salary, and took an
active interest in the management of the public institutions of the city. •• But
the ministry of his later life was that of St. Barnabas, the Son of Consolation;
his room, that of a student and a comparative invalid, was as a centre of
influence to all perplexed and sorrowing souls 'who sought his aid in any way."
Being the oldest of the alumni of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, he was
for forty years its president. Weakness prevented his annual visit to " Seminary
Hill," last June, and his absence from his long accustomed place at the head of
the alumni was sadly missed. He died on the 3l)th of the same month, and was
buried, a few days later, from old Christ Church, Alexandria, where he had often
officiated, and where twice, during his long ministry, he had been asked to
assume full pastoral charge, but had been kept back from undertaking it by the
state of his health.

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Toxm Records of Manchester, from the earliest grants of land, 1636, when a por-,

tion of Salem, until 1736, as contained in the Town Jiecords of Salem, Second

and lltird Bool:, of Bccords of the Town of Manchester. Salem, Mass. : Salein

Press Publishing and Printing Co. 1889. 8vp. pp. 211.

One of the earliest settlers of the Massaehasetts Bay — one of the "Old
Planters" whose arrival here antedated that of both Endicott and Winthrcp —
was William Jeffrey, who is supposed to have given his name to Jeffrey's Creek,
on the North shore of the Bay, between what arc now Beverly and Gloucester,
and who probably at that remote period occupied it for fishing and trading pur-
poses. Jeffrey's Creek was afterwards included within the limits of Salein, and
that Town made several grants of land there, some at least as early as 1G36.
The General Court, May 13, 1640, granted the "petition of the inhabitants of
Salem for some of their church to have Jelfrycs Creeke, & land to erect a village
there." The Court at the session of May 11, 1015, " ordered y l Jeft'ryes Creeke
shalbe called Manchester," and from this it dates its separate existence as a
town. It is not by any means certain why the name Manchester was chosen.
Of various conjectures, Mr. William II. Wliitmore's is not improbable, that as
the great Civil War in England was then raging, and the Earl of Manchester had
been but a short time before in command of the Parliamentary forces, it was in
his honor that the town received its name, although, of course, Manchester in
Lancashire, then a small place which gave but few indications of its present
importance, may have furnished a name for the new town.

Manchester is thus one of the oldest towms iu Massachusetts. Eor the first
two centuries the population was essentially a sea-faring one, and probably few
towns on the coast have had so many ship-masters and seamen in proportion to
its size. On the decay of our commerce and fisheries it became noted for
cabinet-making, which was at one time extensively carried on. But this branch
of industry has in its turn experienced a decline, and now the unrivalled beauty
of its situation has made Manchester one of the most famous summer resorts in
New England, and tine residences crown nearly every projecting headland.

This volume, as its title page indicates, contains all the general records of the
town which have been preserved to us from the beginning down to the year
1736, with an index of persons arranged by Christian and surnames and an index
of places and subjects. It is published by vote of the town, and is the work of
the Town Clerk, Alfred S. Jewett, with the cooperation of a committee ap-
pointed for the purpose consisting of Daniel Leach, William II. Tappan and "D.
L. Bingham. The thanks of the community are due to them for the painstaking
and faithful maimer in which they have performed their task. No greater ser-
vice to posterity can be rendered than by thus putting beyond the possibility of
loss by lire or other casualty the fast decaying remnants of our early records,
and generations yet unborn will bless the memory of the men to whose care and
forethought they are indebted for the rescue from threatened destruction of
these precious relics of the past. The records of all our ancient towns should
be made accessible in print to the investigator. This great work has been too
long delayed. If it had been begun a century ago, much that is now hopelessly
lost might have been saved to us.*

We are apt to forget that much of the literary work of the antiquaries of this
generation will have to be done over again ; that the essays we write will not
be read by those who come after us ; that the histories we publish will be super-
seded in the next generation by others based on materials unknown or inacces-
sible to us; that our decisions will be over-ruled and the verdicts we render will
be set aside on account of evidence yet to be discovered. The duty incumbent

* At the annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, January 2,
18S9, John T. Hassam, A.M., a special committee, made an exhaustive report on " Dangers
to Public Records," which report was printed with the Society's Annual Proceedings. Tt
was proved that the only sure way of preserving records is to print them. Copies were
sent to the various town clerks. This town of Manchester is one of the first towns to get
its records into print, although others have theirs in preparation.— Editor.

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upon the men of our day is to carefully gather up and put in print all the records
of the past that have come down to us. It is the work of the collector and pre-
server which will last for all time, and if properly done now it will not need to
be done again. History can wait until the materials for it are collected, and
when so deferred it will be all the better for the delay.

In addition to the general records of the town of Manchester, there are in the
Town Clerk's office, as yet unpublished, the records of births, deaths, marriages,
and intentions of marriage, the selectmen's account books and the proprietors'
records. It is to be hoped that steps will be immediately taken to carry on the
good work, so that long before the approaching celebration of the 250th anni-
versary of the town, all its records from the earliest times down to at least the
beginning of the present century, if not later, may be put in imperishable form
in print.

By John T. Ilassam, A.M., of Boston.

The Jewels of Pythian Knighthood. Edited by John Van Valkenburg, Past
Supreme Chancellor. Cincinnati : The Pettibonc Company, Fraternity Pub-
lishers. 1889. pp. 451, 8vo.

The contents of this volume more immediately concern the order. Several of
the papers, however, are of wider interest. Dr. Talmage tells his opinion of
secret orders good and bad, in a brilliant but sensible excerpt from one of his
sermons. This order has now more than 250,000 members. It is founded on
the principle of friendship and arranges its ritual around the stor\ r of Damon
and Pythias, as illustrative of the genius and spirit of the order. The editor, in
a graphic article, illustrated with wood cuts of photographs taken on the spot,
describes a Day in Sicily. He confines Ids attention to Palermo. Monreale and
Messina. The Hon. Charles B. Waite contributes a historical and topographical
paper on Siciby and Syracuse, its most ancient city, the scene of the Damon and
Pythias story. Mr. Waite's article is likewise illustrated, and is very good read-
ing indeed, although his statistics of the cities would bear reconsideration. The
Hon. Charles Cowley, LL.D., a life member of the New England Historic Gen-
ealogical Society, contributes two papers, one a reproduction of a speech deliv-
ered at Rochester and another a paper read at Toronto. Y\\ these papers Judge
Cowley seems to have exhausted the subject, tracing every hint in ancient classic
and early Christian authors that make any allusion to the Pythian legend, passing
in review the ancient versions of Cicero, Diodorus Siculus, Valerius Maximus,
Porphyry and Jam blichus, correcting previous translations, showing how Lac-
tantius introduces the story, hinting at St. Paul's knowledge of it, and showing
traces of Pythagorean ideas in Shakespeare and Addison, ami stating that several
eminent authors had reproduced something very like the Pythagorean metempsy-
chosis. He also gives to the light an interesting letter of Ralph Waldo Emerson
describing Syracuse as our Concord essayist saw it in 1833. Finally he gives,
from the note-book of his own observation, illustrative en>es of true friendship's
self-sacrilice occurring among the men engaged in our army during the civil war.
Judge Cowley's contributions put much recondite lore within the reach of the
merely English reader for the iirst time, and justify the eulogium ^\' the late
Elias Nason as to hi> exploratory ability, respecting the origin of the farfamed
story of Damon and Pvthias and the tvrant of Sicily.
By the lttv. Bobert Court, D.D., Lowell, Mass.

The Ordinance of 1787. By Freberick D. Stoxr, Librarian of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, tfvo. pp. 34, Philadelphia. 1*8'J.
This is a pamphlet reprint of an article contributed to the Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography. Its main intention is to criticize adverse-
ly certain eulogiums which have been bestowed upon Rev. Manasseh Cutler,
LL.D., for his services in promoting the adoption by Congress of the ordinance
named in the title. These tributes to Dr. Cutler have generally, and perhaps
without exception, made special reference to the clauses of the ordinance pro-
hibiting slavery and providing for the encouragement of popular education and
the institutions of religion. Incidentally with its main intent the pamphlet
gives in chronological order a concise summary of the several measures pro-
posed or adopted in Congress which led up to the elaborated and final ordinance
of 1787, and cites interesting passages from letters and speeches of eminent
public men of the period, bearing upon the subject.

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127

This secondary or incidental labor of the author will be generally recognized
as of value and importance, being as respects the list of measures brought for-
ward no doubt exhaustive, and, as respects the citations, instructive. Both the
list and the citations will serve for ready reference to any one who purposes to
re-investigate the subject. For without doubt a re-investigation by a com potent
critic will need to be made before the conclusion to which the author of the
pamphlet arrives will be deemed final. Independently of any concern about the
fame of Dr. Cutler, or about warrant for the praise or the criticism bestowed
upon his work, there will be investigation of the main facts by any careful
writer who undertakes to look into the origin of the great states which grew
out of the " North-west Territory."

So far as it relates to Dr. Cutler and his eulogists or critics the question will
probably turn out to be one of rhetoric, or of the right way of stating the case.
The author of the pamphlet opens with a reference to the " Life, Journals and
Correspondence of Manasseh Cutler," and says that he cannot agree with the
views therein expressed, " that in the formation of the ordinance of 1787 for
the government of the Northwest territory Dr. Cutler rendered an all-important
influence." Later in the pamphlet Nathan Dane is quoted and relied on, the
passage being in a letter from Dane to liufus King, of date July 1U, 1787. The
ordinance had passed finally in Congress on July 13. Dane enclosed in his
letter a copy of the ordinance and said to King that " w r e " (meaning Congress)
" have been employed about several objects, the principal of which have been the
government enclosed, and the Ohio purchase ; the former you will see is com-
pleted and the latter will probably be completed tomorrow." Then, having set
forth the stages of progress which the ordinance had made in the committee of
which he was a member, Dane continues : —

" We found ourselves rather pressed. The Ohio Company appeared to purchase
a large tract of the federal lands, and Ave wanted to abolish the old system and
get a better one for the government of the country, and we finally found it
necessary to adopt the best system we could."

All the testimony agrees that the only person who pressed was Manasseh
Cutler, the agent, with full powers, of the Ohio Company. This pressure was
such that Dane says it was found necessary to come to a result at once as to the
territorial government. The author of the pamphlet linds that the proposition
to prohibit slavery began With the persons who, in 1783, took the initiatory step
in the formation of the Ohio Company, and that the proposition to provide for
education and religion had been made before Cutler appeared upon the scene of
Congressional action. He is willing to acknowledge as to the services of the
Doctor this much: — " There was certainly nothing original regarding the
suggestions [of slavery-prohibition and the fostering of education and religion]
in connection with Territorial government, and the credit of having recalled
them at a critical time is all that can be awarded to him."

The question of fact seems to be, Did Dr. Cutler, as agent of the Ohio Com-
pany, go before Congress with the sentiment in his heart, which Stephen A.
Douglass expressed in terms, that he " did not care whether slavery in the terri-
tories was voted up or voted down ;" or did he insist that the primary and organic
legislation of Congress should be such as to make it certain that in the settlement
of the territory for which he negotiated (and which became the pattern for all
later settlements) freedom, education and religion should be perpetuated?

The question of rhetoric seems to be, whetherthe service Dr. Cutler rendered
may be described as an all-important one. The biographer of Dr. Cutler; the
orator of the Marietta Centennial. Senator Hoar; the orator of the American
Antiquarian Societv, John M. Merriam ; the orator of the American Historical
Association, Dr. W. F. Foole; and the Kev. Edward E. Hale, D.D., all of
"Whom the author of the pamphlet quotes, have said, virtually, that it was such
a service.

By Daniel W. Baker, Esq., of Boston, Mass.

Du Simitiere, Artist, Antiquary and Naturalist, Projector of the First American
Museum. With some Extracts from his Note Book. By William Joiin Fotts.
Philadelphia. 18S9. 4to. pp. 37.

This is a reprint of an an article contributed by Mr, Potts to the Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography. Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, a native of
Geneva, came to New York in 17G4 or 1765, but soon removed to Burlington,
N. J., and finally in 17GG to Philadelphia, where he spent the rest of his life,

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dying In October, 1781. This tract gives an interesting sketch of this artist,
antiquary and naturalist, whom Americans have good reasons to thank. As an
artist he preserved the features of some of the leaders of the revolution: as an
antiquary he collected newspapers and rare pamphlets illustrating the history
of that important event, now in the Philadelphia library, and which have been
of much service to authors who have written upon it; aud as a naturalist he
rendered valuable service to our country. *' His acquaintance," says Mr. Potts,
"numbered many among the best men of the day, not only in Congress and the
Revolutionary army, but also the officers of the French army and among the
British." Thus Ids opportunities for gathering materials for the history of the
Revolutionary period were very great, and he improved them.

The sketch* of Du Simitiere's life by Mr. Potts is very satisfactory „ and the
copious extracts from the Note Book of the artist-antiquary, now in the Force
Collection in the Library of Congress, add greatly to its value.

The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1SS9, together icith the Register
of Marriages in Gray's Inn Chapel, 1695-1754. By Joseph Foster, author of
"Alumni Oxonienses," "The British Peerage," "Our Noble and Gentle
Families of Royal Descent," etc. etc. etc. London: Privately Printed by
The Hansard Publishing Union, Limited, Great Queen Street. 1889. Super
Royal, 8vo. pp. 580-f-cx. Price 3 guineas.

Mr. Foster in his preface informs us, that " among the records of national
interest which remain unpublished and comparatively unknown, the Registers
of our Inns of Court hold a preeminent position. As early as the days of Henry
VI., we are reminded by Sir John Fortescue 'that knights, barons and the
greatest nobility of the kingdom often place their children in these Inns of
Court, not so much to make the laws their study, much less to live by their
profession, having large patrimonies of their own, but to form their manners.'
In the Registers of these Inns we consequently find information which else-
where we seek in vain, relating to families and individuals in every portion of
the realm; the fact, moreover, that this information is contained in a legal
register, invests it with an authority superior to that of the treasured Heralds'
Visitations, while it enjoys with them the advantage of dealing with the aristo-
cratic classes. For to quote from Feme's Glory of Generosity (London, 1586) : —
4 Nobleness of blood, joyned with virtue, compteth the person as most meet to
the enterprizing of any public service; and for that cause it was, not for
nought, that our ancient Governors in this land, did with a special foresight
and Wisdom provide that none should be admitted into the Houses of Court,
being Seminaries, sending forth men apt to the Government of Justice, except
he were a gentleman of blood.' "

The Register of Gray's Inn which Mr. Foster has selected for publication, at
this time, is one of the most valuable registers of the several Inns of Court,
and the editor has brought it out in a volume in every way worthy of its merits.
Every precaution has been used to make the transcript an exact copy of the
original. The Marriages at Gray's Inn Chapel from 1695 to 1754 have been
added. These Mr. Foster has arranged alphabetically. The Register of Ad-
missions is printed in chronological order, but a thorough index is given.

Mr. Foster has rendered an important service to antiquarian and historical
students, and we hope that he will meet with sufficient encouragement to induce
him to give us the registers of other Inns in an equally acceptable style.

Illustrations of Old Ipsicich, with Architectural Description of each subject and such

Historical Notices as illustrate the Manners and Customs of previous ages in the

Old Borough, helping to form unpublished chapters in its history. By Jon>"

Glyde. Ipswich: Published by John Glyde. 1889. Imperial 4to., pp. 84.

Half morocco, gilt, cloth sides, gilt top; Price £2. 2s. Five copies, small

folio, with proof impressions of the plates ; Price £4. 4s.

This elaborate volume contains much historical matter and twelve beautiful

illustrations of ancient land-marks in Old Ipswich. Nearly if not all of these

quaint bridges and buildings have now been destroyed, but within a hundred

years some of them were still in use, and most of them in existence. The Town

Hall, the Quay and Custom House, the Market Cross, the Shambles, and the

old mansion known as Sparrowe's House, of which latter we have an interior

view as well as from the street, are all exceedingly interesting. The history of

1390.] Booh Notices. 129

Old Ipswich reaches back into the Saxon period, perhaps to the Roman, and lias
contributed its share to the history of Old England. King John began the gates
and walls in 1208, and these were relied upon for defence as late as the time of
the Great Rebellion. In a brief notice we cannot do justice to this admirable
work, but feel confident that whoever examines this volume, if possessed of any
appreciation of the past, will realize how important is the contribution made by
Mr. Glyde to local and national history.
By George Kuhn Clarke, LL.B., of Needham, Mass.

Washington adapted for a Ciisis ; an address before the Minnesota Commandery
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, in the Hall of the
House of Representatives, State Capitol, St. Paul, February 22, 1SS9. ' By
Edward D. Neill, D.D., Late Chaplain First Minnesota Infantry, U. S.
"Vols. St. Paul, Minn. : The Pioneer Press Company. 1860. 8vo. pp. 21.

Macalester College Contributions. Department of History, Literature and Political
Science, Number One. Virginia Governors under the London Company. By
EDwaiiD D. Neill. St. Paul, Miun. : The Pioneer Press Company. 1889.
8vo. pp. 35.

. Number Three. The Beginning of Organized Society in the Saint

Croix Valley, Minnesota. By Edward D. Neill, D.D. St. Paul, Minn. :
The Pioneer Press Company. 1890. 8vo. 18 pages.

Dr. Neill's address to the Minnesota Commandery of the Loyal Legion is an
able and timely performance. In it he presents the character of Washington
as an example for later days.

The new serial which Dr. Neill has commenced, " Macalester College Contribu-
tions," promises to be a very useful one, as the titles of the different numbers
will show.

The First Folio of the Cambridge Press. Memoranda concerning the 3Iassa-
chusetts Laics of 1648. By George II. Moore, LL.D., Superintendent of the
Lenox Library. Codex valde detiendus. New York : Printed for the Author.
1889. 8vo. pp. 1G.

Dr. Moore has long been an authority on the Laws of the Colony of Massa-
chusetts, having spent much time in the study of their history, In the His-
torical Magazine for February, 18G8, will be found an article by him on "The
Massachusetts Laws of 1(348," in which among other matters he showed that
Joseph Hills of Maiden was the person to whom was entrusted the carrying
of these Laws through the press.

The author in this tract furnishes much new matter about the history of this
book, of which not a single copy has been found though it has been sought for
for three quarters of a century.. The good fortune of Dr. Moore has enabled
him to find in a book by Rev. Thomas Thorowirood. published in 1G50, entitled
"Jewes in America." not only the title, "Booke of theLawes and Liberties
concerning the Inhabitants of Massachusetts," but numerous extracts from the
laws themselves. Is it too much to hope that I)r. Moore's persistent efforts may
ultimately be rewarded by finding a copy of the book itself?

The Scotch-Irish in America. Proceedings r>f the Scotch-Irish Congress at Colum-
bia, Tennessee, May 8-11, 1S89. Published by Order of the Scotch-Irish
Society of America. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. 1889. 8vo. pp. :'10.
Price $1.50 in cloth, or $1.00 in paper.

In 1858, the Hon. William Willis, LL.D., contributed to the Register an
article on the McKinstry family, to which he prefixed a " Preliminary Essay on
the Scotch-Irish Immigrations to America." Tins we think was the first essay
on the general subjeet. Mr. Parker had, in 1851, in his History of Londonderry,
N. H., treated of the emigration which led to the settlement of that town.
Since then much has beeu printed and writteu about the Scotch-Irish in this
country,

The book before us is claimed to be " the first distinctive work on this great
race in America." It contains an account of the proceedings at the Congress at
Columbia, with the addresses and historical papers in full. " This volume is
the auspicious beginning as an organized effort to give the race its merited
prominence in history, and as such is attracting wide spread attention."

VOL. XLIV. 12

130 Booh Notices. [Jan. *

An Essay on the Autographic Collections of the Signers of the Declaration of
Independence and of the Constitution. From Vol. Nth, Wisconsin Historical
Society's Collections, Revised and Enlarged. By Lyman C. Draper, LL.l). i

New York : Burns & Son, Publishers, 744 Broadway; 1889. Sm. 4to. pp. 117.
The present volume is the result of Mr. Draper's experience, during many
years, in making for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, a collection
of the autographs of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and of
the Constitution. In making his report to the Society on its set of these
autographs and the difliculties that had been encountered in completing the
series, Dr. Draper deemed it appropriate to "introduce the subject with some
account of the slow but steady growth in this country of this beautiful and
inspiring employment; and to note, moreover, other collections extant, com-
plete and incomplete, exhibiting the great labor of bringing them together,' and
instituting, to some extent, a just comparison of their relative strength, historic
importance and intrinsic value."

Dr. Draper gives a list of twenty-two complete sets of the Signers of the
Declaration and nineteen of the Signers of the Constitution. lie also gives much
information concerning autographs and autograph collectors. The book will be
found quite interesting. A portrait of the author embellishes the volume.

Notes on Book-Plates (ex-libris), with Special Iicference to Lancashire and Cheshire
Examples and a Proposed Nomenclature for the Shapes of Shields. A paper read
before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 18th October, 1888. By
J. Paul Rylands, E.S.A., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Printed
for Private Circulation. 1889. 8vo. pp. 76.

The paper of Mr. Rylands contains much interesting information on English
book-plates, and particularly those of Lancashire and Cheshire. The devices
are often quaint and curious. Some of the specimens most deserving of notice
are reproduced in facsimile. The history of these plates is also interesting.

The author's nomenclature for the shape of shields is deserving of particular
notice, as it clearly distinguishes the different shapes.

" The collecting of book-plates, or, as they are more expressively termed by
the French, eo:-libris" says Mr. Rylands, " is a pursuit of modern growth ; and
when I began to form my collection, twenty years ago, the names of English
collectors might almost have been counted on one's lingers. Of late years,
however, the number of collectors has greatly increased, and the prices which
are charged by the dealers have been comparatively advanced.

Early Voyages to America. Paper read before the. Rhode Island Historical

Society. Bv James Phinney Baxter, A.M. Providence: Printed for the

Society. 1889. 8vo. pp. 49.
Collections of the Old Colony Historical Society, No. 4. Early Voyages to

America, by James Phinney Baxter-, A.M., and other Historical Papers read

before the Society. Published by the Old Colony Historical Society. Press

of C. II. Bullington, Taunton, Mass. 1889. 8vo. pp. 108.

The lirst pamphlet, Mr. Baxter's paper on Early Voyages to America, read
before the Rhode Island Historical Society, March (*:. 188S, is a very interesting
one. It relates to the Voyages of the Northmen to these shores. He thinks
that they visited New England, though he discards the Old Tower at Newport
and the Dighton rock as the work of their hands. This we think is the opinion
of the present members of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries.

The next pamphlet is No. 4 of the Collections of the Old Colony Historical
Society. The first paper is Mr. Baxter's on Early Voyages to America, which
was read before this Society, April 10, 1888, a month after the author had read it to
the Rhode Island Historical Society. There are also papers entitled, Reminis-
cences of the Ancient Iron Works and Leonard Mansions of Taunton, by Elisha
Clark Leonard; Indian Massacres at Taunton, by Gen. Ebenezer W. Peirce:
Reminiscences of Shays's Rebellion, by Capt. John W. 1). Hall; King Philip's
Grant to James Leonard, by E. C. Leonard : Dighton Writing Rock and Deed, by
Capt. J. W. D. Hall; Obituary Record of the Society, and other matters. All
the papers are valuable. The paper by Mr. Leonard on the Taunton Iron Works
and Leonard Mansions corrects many errors in previous histories about the
Leonard mansions. Mr. Leonard discovered evidence a few years ago that a
building then standing (but since taken down) was the origiual mansion of

1890.] Booh Notices. 131

the Leonards, and that the house of which a view is given in Barber's Historical
Collections of Massachusetts was not built till after Philip's War, and so could
not have been the scene of Dr. Fobes's "graphic descriptions of the horrors"
of that war, 1G75--G. Views of both houses are given in Mr. Leonard's paper.

Grown Historical Series; A Collection of Papers relating to the History of the

Town of Groton, Massachusetts. By Samuel Abbott Green, M.I). Groton.

1890. 8vo. pp. viii. -j-471. Edition, 125 copies. Price $5. For sale by

George E. Littlefleld, 07 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. .

Dr. Green, for many years, has been doing much for his native town, and
proposes to do still more in the way of preserving and publishing " every thing
of an appropriate character, within his reach, which may interest and instruct
the residents " of Groton, "or be of value to students of local history." The
field, it is true, is an extensive one, but the Doctor is a good reaper, and has an
intense love for his work. Commendable industry and good judgment are
shown in bringing together so much here, as elsewhere, that is decidedly inter-
esting and historically useful to the public in general, as well as to the inhabit-
ants of his birth-place.

A notice of the lirst volume of the series, consisting of twenty numbers,
appeared in the Register for October, 1887, with a list of contents, and a
mention of several historical monographs previously published by Dr. Green.

The contents of the sixteen numbers of this second series, which completes
the work to January, 1890, are three-fold and more in number than that of the
first series, aud is supplemented with indexes " to the various headings," in
both volumes,

By William B. Trask, A.M., of Dorchester, Mass.

The op Dyclc Genealogy, containing the OpdycJc, Opdycke, Opdyke, Updike Ameri-
can Descendants of the Wesel and Holland Families. By Charles Wilson
Opdyke. With an Investigation into their Op Den Dyclc Ancestors in Europe.
By Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. Printed for Charles W. Opdyke, Leonard
E. Opdycke and William S. Opdyke of New York, 1889, by Weed, Parsons
& Co., Albany, N. Y. Royal 8vo. pp. 499. To be obtained of C. W. Opdyke,
20 Nassau St., New York City.

The Driver Family : a Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Bobert ojid
Phebe Driver of Lynn, Mass. With an Appendix containing Twenty-Three
Allied Families, 1592-1SS7. Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth
(Waters) Cooke. New York: Printed for the Author. 1889. 8vo. pp. xxv.
4-531. Price $3. To be purchased of William Waters, 101 Fulton Street, or
of the Compiler, Mrs. Cooke, 43 East 57th Street, New York City.

History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass. By Charles
W. Farnham, A.M. New Haven : Tattle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers.
1889. 8vo. pp. xv.-f-1246. Price $5, to be obtained of the author, New

! Haven, Conn.

Tlie Biennial Beunion of the Keyser Family, 16SS-1SSS. The Keyser Family
Descendants of Dirck Keyser of Amsterdam. Compiled by Charles S. Keyser,
Philadelphia. 1889. Super Royal, 8vo. pp. 101.
Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their Family Becords. Collected
and Arranged by William II. Dabney of Boston. Chicago: Press of S. D.
Childs & Co. 1888. Royal 8vo. pp. 197+9.
Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and Newbury,
Mass. By the late Robert S afford Hale, LL.D. With additions by other
Members of the Family. Edited by Geerge R. Howell, M.A. Albany, N. Y. :
Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers. 1889. 8vo. pp. xii.+415.
Filial Tribute to the Memory of Bev. John Moffat Howe, M.D. 1889. Svo. pp. 254.
A Complete History and Genealogy of the Littlchale Family in America from 1633
to 1889. Collated and Compiled by Frederick II. Littlehale of Boston,
Mass. Boston, Mass. : Published by A. W. & F. II. Littlehale. David Clapp
& Son, Printers. 1889. Svo. pp. vi.-f-128.
The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass. Part III. Descendants of Ser-
geant Jacob Perkins. By George A. Perkins, M.D., Member New England
I Historic Genealogical Society. Salem: Printed for the Author. Svo. pp. 173.

A Genealogy of the bescendants'of James Dean, one of the First Settlers of Oakham,
Mass. By Gardner Milton Dean. Boston : Press of T. W. Ripley. 1889.
Super Royal, Svo. pp. 19.

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Memorials of the Family of Morse. Compiler! from the Original Records for the
Hon. Asa Porter Morse, by Henry Dutch Lord. For Private Distribution
Only. Boston : Printed for the Compiler, by E. P. Whiteomb. 1889. 8vo.
pp.116.

Genealogy of the Famham Family. By Rev. J. M. TV. Farnham, D.D., Author
of "Homeward" &c. Second Edition, with Supplement. New York: The
Baker & Taylor Co. 1889. 12ino. pp. 50.

Genealogy of the Family of Harvey of Folksione, co. Kent; London; Hackney and
Twickenham, co. Middlesex; Croyden, ' Putnam and Kingston, co. Surrey;
Hempstead, Chigicell and Barking, co. Essex; Clifton and Wike, co. Dorset,
etc. Compiled from Original Sources, with Notes by William J. Harvey,
Esq., E.S.A. Scot., Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newqastle-
npon-Tyne, etc. etc. London : Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W.
1889. 4to. pp. 18.

A Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Sawyer of Newbur% Mass.,
embracing Ten Generations and one Hundred and Seven Families. By
Nathaniel Sawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Joseph BtJrbeen Walker of
Concord, N. H. Manchester, N. H. : Printed by William II.. Moore. 1889.
8vo. pp. 47-f-xii.

Genealogy of the Emery Family. Four Generations. By IIufus Emery. Emery
Cleaves, Salem, Mass. 8vo. pp. 22.

Tfie Ancestors of Silas Tinker in, America from 1637. A Partial Becord, pre-
pared by A. B. Tinker of Akron, and read at the annual reunion of the
Descendants of Silas Tinker at Ashtabula, Ohio, August 15, 1889. The
Werner Printing & Lithog. Co., Akron, Ohio. 8vo. pp. 11.

The Groves and Lappan (Monaghan County, Ireland). An account of a Pilgrim-
age thither in search of the Genealogy of the Williams Family. By John
Fletcher Williams, secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society. Privately
Printed for the Family. St. Paul. 1889. 8vo. pp. 68.

The Ancestry of Edward Bauson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
With some Account of his Life in Old and New England. By Ellery Bicknell
Crane. Worcester, Mass. ; Private Press of Franklin P. liice. 1887. 8vo.
pp. 54.

The Franklin Ancestry and Descendants in the Col. Lewis Bache (1779) Line to
1889. Interspersed with Historico-Genealogical Events. An Appendix added.
8vo. pp. 8. 1889.

Genealogy of Bichard Baker, bom in England, died in Dorchester, Mass., October
25, 1689. Compiled by Edmund J. Baker, President of the Dorchester
Antiquarian and Historical Society. Boston: David Clapp & Son. 1889.
8vo. pp. 40.

An Examination of the English Ancestry of George Washington, setting forth the
Evidence to connect him with the Washingtons of Sulgrave and Brinaton, By
Henry F. Waters, A.M. Bostou: Printed for the New England Historic
Genealogical Society. 1S89. 8vo. pp. 53. Price 50 cts.

Some of the Descendants of Philip Towlc of Hampton, X. H. By Mrs. A. E. T.
Lindsay of Tenafly, N. J. 8vo. pp. 8.

Extracts from English Parish Begistcrs relating to King and TJaims Families.
By Rufus King. 8vo. pp. 4. 1889.

We continue our quarterly notices of ^onealosrical publications.

The first book on our list is the op livek Genealogy, contemner an extensive
reeord of the American families of Opdycki Opdycke, Opdyke and Updike, with an
account of their European ancestry. The name is found as early as the thirteenth
century, and many interesting facts relative to those who bore it have been collected.
The book is one that the compilers and the family may well be proud of. It plainly
shows that great labor has been bestowed in collecting the materials and much judg-
ment in their arrangement. The illustrations of the book deserve a particular notice.
The facsimiles of historical documents connected with the family are both curious
and valuable. There are also views of places and buildings in Europe and this
country, and numerous portraits. The book is handsomely printed and is well
indexed.

The next book devoted to the "Times and Generations of the Driver Family" is a
highly interesting work. As half of the volume is devoted to other families which
are allied with the Drivers, it will interest a vast number of persons, and in widely
scattered parts of our country. Mrs. Cooke has been indefatigable in collecting

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materials for her book ; and her arrangement of the matter is both judicious and clear.
The names of many eminent persons who are descended from the Driver family or
from families allied to it, are found in this book. The work is a storehouse of infor-
mation on New England genealogy. The book is interesting and valuable to English
persons of the name as well as to Americans. It should be in every public library.
The book is handsomely printed and bound.

The Whitman genealogy is a bulky volume of over 1250 octavo pages. The
authors seem to have been very successful in tracing the descendants of John Whit-
man, an early settler of Weymouth, Massachusetts. The only genealogy of this
family before this was the thin octavo of forty-four pages, by Judge Whitman,
published in 1832. A glance at this volume will show the vast additions made by the
present compiler. The indexes are very full and lill 1S4 x^ages. The book is well
printed and bound.

The volume on the Keyser Family contains a full report of the proceedings at the bi-
centennial reunion of that family at Germantown, Pa., October 10, 188S, to which is
added a genealogy of the family. Divck Keyser of Amsterdam, the progenitor, settled
at Germantown in 1G88. The addresses and papers read at the reunion are of high
merit, and are illustrated by portraits and other engravings. The book makes an
elegant volume.

The volume on the Dabneys relates to the Virginia family of that name. The
author, Mr. William II. Dabney, of Boston, died Feb. 16, 1888, in his seventy-first
year, while he was giving this book a final revision before placing it in the hands of
the printer. Mr. Dabney states that before preparing this record of the Virginia
family he had compiled a genealogy of the Massachusetts Dabneys, from which he him-
self was descended. This we presume has never been printed. The Virginia Dabneys
are traced to two Ilugncnot brothers, John and Cornelius d'Aubigne or D'Aubigny,
who settled in Virginia early in the last century. The Massachusetts Dabneys are
descended from Robert DAubign6 or Dabney, who settled at Boston about the same
time that the Virginia immigrants, supposed to be brothers of Robert, settled there.
The book is well compiled and handsomely printed. A memoir of the author by his
daughter and a portrait of him are preiixed to the volume.

The Hon. Ilobcrt S. Hale, LL.D., of Elizabcthtown, N. Y., who died Dec. 14, 1881,
had been engaged for several years in preparing a genealogy of the Hale family. In
January, 1877, he published in the Register (vol. 31, pp. 83-99) an article entitled
" Thomas Hale, the Glover, of Newbury, Mass., 1635, and his Descendants." A
second article by him on " Thomas Hale" appeared in the October Register, a few
months before his death, giving the result of researches in England. The book has
been edited by George R. Howell, A.M., of the State library, Albany, who has perform-
ed his duty ably and thoroughly. Mr. Howell states that, " As the manuscripts of
Mr. Hale were found to contain a vast amount of information outside of a mere
genealogical record, it was deemed best to give to the world the total results of his
labors, and in the form he left them." The book is well arranged and makes a hand-
some volume.

The Howe book is a memorial of the Rev. John Moffat Howe, M.D., who died at
Passaic, N. J., Feb. 5, 18S5, in his eightieth year, written by his brother-in-law, Rev.
John M. Reid, D.D. Incorporated with it are some interesting genealogical and
historical facts collected by George R. Howe of Newark, N. J., a son of the late Rev.
Dr. Howe.

The next book, that on the Littlehale family, is devoted to the descendants of
Richard Littlehale, an early settler of Newbury and Haverhill, Mass. The author
has been very successful in tracing the descendants of his emigrant ancestor, and he
expresses the belief that there are no Littlehales in this country whose records are
not contained in this book. The chances are that though others will be found, very
few have escaped the persistent research of Mr. Littlehale. The book is well com-
piled, handsomely printed and well indexed. Portraits and other illustrations
embellish the volume.

The book on the Perkins family is the third and concluding part of Dr. George A.
Perkins's work on " The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich." The first part, devoted
to the descendants of Quarter Master John Perkins, the eldest son, was published in
1882, and was noticed in this periodical for October, 188-1 ; the second part, contain-
ing the descendants of Thomas Perkins, published in 1887, was noticed by us in April,
1887. The present volume is devoted to the descendants of the youngest son, Jacob.
Like the proceeding parts, this is deserving of much praise for the thorough maimer in
which it is compiled. It has a good index.

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The next volume is devoted to the descendants of James Dean, who settled at
Oakham, Mass., in the middle of the last century. Genealogies of the early genera-
tions of several families by the name of Dean have been printed in the Register,
but no connection is made with any of these. The book is well arranged and hand-
somely printed.

The book on the Morse family is by Mr. Henry Dutch Lord of Boston, an experi-
enced and faithful genealogist. He has compiled this work for the Hon. Asa P. Morse
of Cambridgeport, a descendant of Anthony Morse an early settler of Newbury, Mass.
A genealogy of Anthony's descendants, the line of Mr. Morse, is given. Notices of
other emigrants by the name of Morse and their families are given. The book is well
printed.

The Farnham book is a second edition of the work on that family, published in
1886, and noticed by us in January, 1887. The author is a resident of Shanghai,
China, where he has long been a missionary. Notwithstanding the author's residence
in a distant land from the people whose record he gives, he has compiled a very satis-
factory work. He dedicates it to our Society. It makes a handsome volume.

The Harvey family, to which the next work is devoted, is descended from Thomas
Harvey of Folkestone, co. Kent, who was Mayor of that town in 1000. Very full
wid interesting details of his descendants have been obtained, which are given us in
the form of tabular pedigrees. An appendix of notes supplies information which
eould not be conveniently given in the pedigree. Numerous facsimiles illustrate the
work. Only fifty copies have been printed, for private circulation.

The earlier portion of the Sawyer genealogy was prepared by the late Hon. Nathaniel
Sawyer a few years before his death in 1853. Mr. Walker of Concord, N. 11., has
completed the work and carried it through the press. An article by Win. S. A ppleton,
A.M., giving the early generations of this family, was printed in the Register for
April, 1874.

The Emery pamphlet traces four generations of descendants of the brothers, John
Emery of Newbury, Mass., and Anthony Emery of Kittery, Maine. This useful work
was prepared under the direction of the genealogical committee of the Emery Associa-
tion, of which llev. Rufus Emery of Newburgh, N. Y., is chairman.

The Tinker pamphlet is devoted to the ancestor of Silas Tinker, who was of the 5th
generation in descent from Mr. John Tinker, who came to New England in the
seventeenth century and settled at Boston, whence he removed to Lancaster, Mass.,
and finally to New London, Ct. He died in October, 1602. The record of his
descendants in one line to Silas Tinker is quite full. Silas was born at Lyme, Ct.,
and settled at Kingsville, Ohio, where he died in 1840, in his ninety-second year.

The Williams pamphlet gives an account of a pilgrimage by John F. Williams,
the able secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, to the Groves, Monaghan
County, Ireland, the seat of his ancestor John "Williams, a native of Glamorganshire,
Wales. Interesting descriptions, illustrated by engravings, are given. Appended
is a genealogy of the descendants of this John Williams, who was born about 1600.
William Williams of the fifth generation emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1784. The
book will interest the general reader as well as the genealogist.

The pamphlet on the Ancestry of Edward Rawson will interest the many persons
who trace their pedigree to the famous secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
In the Register for July. 1884, Mr. Waters has printed many Gleanings concerning
the families of Edward Rawson and his uncle Rev. John Wilson, Mr. Crane has
instituted other researches in England, and in the work before us gives us much
valuable information about the English Rawsoris. Pedigrees tracing the name back
to Robert Rawson of Freystone, Yorkshire, living in 1377, are given. The ancestry of
Secretary Rawson can only be' traced to his grandfather Edward of Colnbrook, Bucks.
We hope that Mr. Crane will continue his praiseworthy researches till he discovers
the connecting link.

The Franklin pamphlet is by Mr. William Bache of Bristol, Pa., who communicated
to the Register for January, 1857 (pp. 17-20), a valuable article on the Franklin
family. The present work is quite interesting and valuable.

The Baker pamphlet is a reprint from the Register for July last, with the genealogy
continued to the present time. It has also valuable historical and genealogical
appendices. It is well prepared and well printed.

The pamphlet on "The Ancestry of Washington" is a reprint from Mr. Waters's
Gleanings in the Register for October last. The present (January) number contains
some new Washington matter.

The Towle pamphlet and that on the King and Haines families are also reprints
from the Register.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Presented to the New England Historic Genealogical Society to Dec. 1889.

Prepared by Mr. Thomas F. Millett, Assistant Librarian.

I. Publications written or edited by Members of the Society.

Genealogy of descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury,
Mass. By the late Robert S afford Hale, LL.D., with additions by other members of
the family. Edited by George 11. Howell, M.A. Albany, N. Y. : Weed, Parsons &
Co., printers. 1889. 8vo. pp. 415.

Ancestry of Edward Ttawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, with
some Account of His Life in Old and New England. By Ellery Bicknell Crane.
Worcester, Mass. : Press of Franklin P. Rice. 1887.

Genealogy of Richard Baker, born in England ; died in Dorchester, Mass., October
25, 1689. Compiled by Edmund J. Baker. Boston : David Ciapp & Son, Printers,
115 High Street. 1889. 8vo. pp. 40.

The Groves, and Lappan, Monaghan County, Ireland. An account of a pilgrimage
thither in search of the Genealogy of the Williams Family. By John Fletcher
Williams. Privately printed, Saint Paul, Minn. 1889. 8vo. pp. 68.

The Franklin Ancestry and Descendants in the Colonel Louis Bache (1779)
Line to 1889. Interspersed with Historico- Genealogical Events, and Appendix
added. 1889. 8vo. pp. 8. By William Bache.

Groton Historical Series, Yol. II., Nos. 14, 15, and 16. Dr. S. A. Green, Editor,
Groton, Mass. 1889. 8vo.

Documentary History of the State of Maine, "Vol. IV. Containing The Baxter
Manuscripts. Edited by James Phinney Baxter, A.M. Published by the Maine
Historical Societv, aided by appropriations from the State. Portland : Brown,
Thurston & Co. 1889. 8vo. pp. 508.

Capt. Francis Champornowne, The Dutch Conquest of Acadie and other Historical
Papers. By Charles Wesley Tuttle, Esq., Ph.D. Edited by Albert Harrison Hoyt,
A.M., with Historical Notes. With a Memoir of the Author by John Ward Dean,
A.M. Boston : Printed by John W T ilson & Son, University Press. 1889. Crown
4to. pp. 426.

The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass. Part III. Descendants of Sergeant
Jacob Perkins. By Geo. A. Perkins, M.D. Salem : Salem Press Publishing & Print-
ing Co. 1889. 8vo. pp. 173.

1640-1889. A Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Sawyer of New-
bury, Mass. Embracing ten generations and one hundred and seven families. By
Nathaniel Sawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Joseph Burbeen Walker of Concord, N. H.
Manchester, N. H. : Printed by William E. Moore. 1889. 8vo. pp. 59.

Memoranda concerning the Massachusetts Laws of 1648. By George II. Moore,
LL.D., Superintendent of the Lenox Library. New York : Printed for the Author.
1889. 8vo. pp. 16.

Memoir of John C. Phillips. By Rev. Edward G. Porter ; with the remarks of Hon.
Robert C. Winthrop, and other tributes. Privately printed. Cambridge: John
Wilson & Son, University Press. 1888. 8vo. pp. 12."

Biographical Sketch of General Charles W. Darling, from Encyclopaedia of Con-
temporay Biography of New York. Vol. VI. Atlantic Publishing and Engraving
Co., New York. 1890. Crown 4to. pp. 6.

An Examination of the English Ancestry of George Washington. Setting forth

the evidence to connect him with the Washingtons of Sulgrave and Brington. By

Henry F. Waters, A.M. Reprinted from the N.E. Historic and Genealogical Register

for October, 1889. Boston : Printed for the New England Historic Genealogical

I Society. 1889. 8vo. pp. 53.

The Ordinance of 1787. By Frederick D. Stone, Librarian of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1889. 8vo.pp. 34.

II. Other Publications.

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 1887-1889. Second Series,
Vol. IV. Boston : Published by the Society. 8vo. pp. 461.

Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society at the Semi- Annual Meeting
held in Boston, April 24, 1889. Vol. VI. New Series, Part I. Worcester, Mass.:
Press of Charles Hamilton, 3 1 1 Main St. 1889. 8vo. pp. 90.

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[Jan.

Essex Institute Historical Collections, April, May and June, 1888. Vol. XXV.
Salem, Mass.: Printed for the Essex Institute. 1889. 8vo. pp. 1G4.

A Tribute to the Memory of Charles Deane, by the Massachusetts Historical
Society, at a special Meeting, Dec. 3, 1889. Boston : Published by the Society. 1880.
8vo. pp. 31.

Contributions of the Old Residents Historical Association, Lowell, Mass. Vol.
IV. No. 2. Published by the Association, August, 1889. Lowell, Mass. : Morning
Mail Print, No. 18 Jackson St. 18S9. Svo. pp. 191.

Letters by Josiah Bartlett, Williana Whipple, and others. "Written before and
during the Revolution. Philadelphia: Press of Henry P. Ashmead. 1889. 8vo.pp. 71.

York Leeds, Books V. and VI. Edited by William M. Sargent, A.M. Portland:
Brown, Thurston & Co. 1889. Svo. pp. 130.

The History of a Hare Washington Print. A paper read before the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania May 6, 1889. By William S. Baker.. Philadelphia. 1889.
8vo. pp. 10.

DEATHS.

Mr. John Phillips Payson died at Chelsea,
Mass., October 13, 1889, aged 74. He
was a son of John Phillips Payson, and
was born in Brentwood, N. H., April
18, 1815. He was a descendant in the
7th generation from Edward 1 Payson,
an early settler of Dorchester, Mass.,
through John, 2 Jonathan, 3 John, 4
Thomas, 6 and John Phillips 6 Payson his
father. In 1840 he began teaching a
public school at Exeter, N. H., and
continued there about two years. He
then taught in Hampton Falls and
Newmarket till the winter of 1844,
when he removed to Portsmouth, N. II.,
and taught the Franklin and Bartlett
Schools till September, 1859. He then
removed to Chelsea, Mass., where for
twenty- five years he was head master
of the Williams School for Boys. He
retired about four years before his death.
He was the author of several educational
publications. He married October 26,
1836, Sarah Jane, daughter of Samuel
and Jane M. (Dean) Webster (see
Register, vol. 37, p. 294}. He com-
plied a genealogy of the Payson family
which he left in manuscript. He was
an active member of the Congregational
Church at Chelsea. He was also promi-
nent in the Masonic and Odd Fellow
circles.

Mrs. Sarah Chaplix Rockwood died at
Cortland, Cortland County. New York,
on November 26, 1889, at the remarkable
age of 104 years. She was a daughter
of the Reverend Daniel and Susanna
(Prescott) Chaplin, and born at Groton,
Mass., on November 8, 1785. She was
married on May 1. 1828, to Abel, son of
Samuel and Lucy ( Hubbard )Rockwood,
of Groton, who died on November 28 of
the same year. Mrs. Rockwood's father
was the last minister of Groton, who

was settled by the town ; and her mother
was a daughter of the Honorable James
Prescott, and a niece of Colonel William
Prescott, who commanded the American
forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. She
was buried at Cortland on November
29, and her funeral was attended by a
large number of friends. s. a. g.

Mrs. Mary Goodhue Sanderson, wife of
John Flagg Sanderson, died of consump-
tion, at Littleton, Mass., January 31,
1889. She was born at Pembroke,
N. II., Feb. 17, 1837, and was the only
daughter of Coi. Hiram and Deborah
Collins (Goodhue) Knox, married at
Suncook, N. IL, by Rev. Geo. S. Barnes
(Methodist), August 10. 1858. During
their early married life they lived in
Littleton, but soon after the birth of
their first child, removed to Groton,
where they resided until after the birth
of their two other children, when they
went to Marlborough, where they re-
sided until May i, lbs I. since which
time they \\\--<\ is> Liuleton on the
birthplace of her huabutui. She made
no profession of religion, but was do-
mestic in her tastes ; her health being
delicate for Several years, she was al-
most constantly with her family, where
her influence for good was always felt.
Her two brothers William and Samuel,
both living in Wisconsin, survive her.
She left three children, viz. : Jessie
Ascnath, born in Littleton, June 19,
1860, married to Frank J. Hagar, of
Littleton Muy 4, 1887 ; Ida Leavitt,
born in Groton, July 23, 18G2, married
at Littleton, August 12, 1885, to Johr
J.Kelley, who died at Longmont, Coh
rado, of consumption, February 5, L8SS
John Knox Sanderson, born at Gre :;,
August 23, 18G5. 1. 1 >..

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CONTENTS— -APRIL, 1890,

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Portrait of SAMUEL TURELL ARMSTRONG- (tofaeeyage 13?).

I. Hon. Samuel Turell Armstrong. By John Ward Dean, A.M. . . . 137

II. Memoranda by the Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong. Communicated by Hamilton

Andrews Hill, A.M. 139

III. Soldiers in King Philip's War. No. XXIX. By the Rev. George M.

Bodge, A.M 141

IV. Inscriptions at Dan vers, Mass. Copied by Samuel P. Fowler, Esq. . . 147
. V. Simon Fehdinando and John Walker in Maine, 1579-rSQ. By the Rev. B. F. _

DeCosta, D.D . . . . . . . . 149

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XX. Death 232

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REGISTER.

APKIL, 1890.

HON. SAMUEL TXJKELL ARMSTRONG.

MR. ARMSTRONG was an early member of the New-England
Historic Genealogical Society, of which his kinsman, Charles
Ewer, Esq., was the first president and one of the founders. He
took much interest in the prosperity of the Society and was active
in its affairs. We have been told that one of his last business trans-
actions was for this Society on the day of his death, acting as a com-
mittee on the affairs of the New-England PIistorical and Gene-
alogical Register. We are therefore pleased to be able to present
to the readers of the Regtstee some genealogical memoranda by
him, and to accompany them by a portrait and a sketch of his life.

Samuel Turell Armstrong was a son of Capt. John Armstrong, of
Dorchester, and his wife Elizabeth Williams, and was born in that
town April 29, 178-4. When he was ten years old he lost his father,
and before he had reached the age of thirteen his mother died. He
was placed as an apprentice with Messrs. Manning and Loring,
printers in Spring Lane, Boston, who during his apprenticeship
added bookselling to the printing business and opened a store at
No. 2 Cornhill, the second door north of Spring Lane on what is
now Washington Street. The late Hon. Joseph T. Buckingham,
who worked for them as a journeyman in 1800, says they '"were
then the principal book-printers in the town."*

After finishing his apprenticeship, he opened a printing omce at

(No. 70 State Street, in partnership with Mr. Joshua Belcher, under
the firm of Belcher & Armstrong. This partnership was dissolved
in a few years, and Mr. Armstrong set up a printing office in Charles-
1° town. Here he began the publication of the JPanoplist, " a monthly
magazine devoted to religious subjects and particularly to the promo-
tion of missionary enterprise."

He removed to Boston in 1811, and "began as publisher and
bookseller a career of remarkable prosperity." He still carried on

• Buckingham'3 Personal Memoirs, vol. i. p.
VOL. XLIV. 12A

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138 Samuel Turell Armstrong. [April,

the printing business.* His bookstore was at No. 90 Cornhill.
When, in 1824, Cornhill became a part of Washington Street, the
number of his store was 49. It was situated between Court Street
and the present Cornhill. " In addition to the Panopust, numerous
works, original or republished, in advocacy of the old faith of New
England, made his store the great mart of religious literature for the
Orthodox churches,"!

The year of his removal to Boston he took two apprentices, Uriel
Crocker and Osmyn Brewster .J Soon after they attained their
majority, in the year 1318, Mr. Armstrong took them into partner-
ship. The bookselling business was carried on under Mr. Arm-
strong's name, and the printing under the firm of Crocker &
Brewster. In 1825, he sold out his interest to his partners, but
" Mr. Armstrong was more or less connected in business with the
firm of Crocker & Brewster until 1840, and his almost daily visits
to the old counting-room continued to the very day of his death. "§

Mr. Armstrong joined the Old South Church, Boston, December
24, 1815 ; and was chosen a deacon May 18, 1829, which office he
held till his death. He served on various committees and was a
zealous promoter of the interest of the church and society. He was
at one time superintendent of the Sunday School.

He was a member of Warren Phalanx, a military company in
Charlestown. In 1812 he held the office of ensign, Thomas Edmands,
Jr., being captain. He was an officer of the company during the
whole period of the war of 1812. In 1815 he held a commission as
its captain. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanic Association, of which he was a trustee, 1822 to 1824,
and president in 1828 and 1829. On the 17th of April, 1845,
he was admitted a resident member of the New-England Historic
Genealogical Society.

He was a representative to the General Court from May, 1822, to
May, 1823, and from May, 1828, to May, 1829; and a senator
from January, 1839, to January, 1840. He held the office of
Lieutenant Governor from January, 1833, to January, 1836. The
last ten months of his service he was the acting Governor of the
State, Gov. John Davis, who was chosen United States Senator,
having resigned the office of Governor, March 1, 1835. On his
retirement from the executive chair of Massachusetts, he was chosen
Mayor of Boston and held the office for the year 1836.

He married* in 1812, Abigail, daughter of the Hon. Timothy
Walker of Charlestown. They had no children. He died March
26, 1850, in his 66th year. His widow, who was born January 3,
1794, survived him, and died at Boston March 8, 1882.

Mr. Armstrong wrote, a few years before his death, a very full

* Crocker's Memoir of Armstrong, Memorial Biographies, vol. L pp. 232-36.

•t Crocker's Memoir of Armstrong.

| See Register, vol. 42, p. 320.

§ Crocker's Memoir of Armstrong. *

Mppmn*

1890.] Samuel Turell Armstrong, 139

autobiography, which his widow found after his death and showed
to Mr. Crocker. When she died Mr. Crocker caused a search to be
made, but the manuscript could not then be found.

The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association passed the
following resolutions on his death :

We revere his memory for that integrity of purpose which distinguished
him as well in his private relations as in his public official character, and
for that practical wisdom and steady industry which rendered him an
efficient man in all his undertakings, and enabled him to fill with so much
credit the honorable duties of friend, associate and citizen.

A full memoir of Mr. Armstrong, written by Uriel Crocker,
A.M., whose long association with him as his apprentice, partner
and friend, enabled him to do justice to his character, has been
published by the Society in the first volume of its Memorial Biog-
raphies.

Memoranda by Hon. Samuel Turell Armstrong.
-- Communicated by Hamilton Andrews Hill, A.M.

In 1630 with Sir R. Saltonstall, came Mr. William Colbron ov Colburne,
died 1662. (Will 1G62.)

Margery Colburne his wife. W. C. was a deacon in first church in
Winthrop.*

Mary Colburne, Daughter, married John Barrel] and had children. A
daughter Hannah or Anna married Daniel Turell, Junior. M. C. became
a widow and married after John Barrell's death Daniel Turell (will 1693),
blacksmith. They had :

1. Samuel Turell ; was hjjirst wife.

2. Joseph Turell.

3. Colbron Turell ; died in the wars.

4. Lydia Turell. j
D. T. died 1693.

Lydia m. — ■ Foster and died leaving 2 daughters, Sarah and Lydia.

Samuel Turell married Lydia Stoddard, d. of Anthony Stoddard. 1738
died (will 1738).

1. Lydia, m. Thayer.

2. Christian, m. S. Bass.

3. Ebenezer Turell of Medford.

4. Joseph.
Christian Turell married Samuel Bass: they had several children. (Will

1762.) J V

1. Samuel. 2. Daniel. 3. Mary. 4. Christian.
Qtristian Bass married John Armstrong ; died 1805. They had several
children :

John, Samuel, Ebenezer, Rebecca, Mary, Nancy.
John Armstrong married Elizabeth Williams of Dorchester; died 1794.
Rebecca, Nancy, Samuel Turell, John W«, Elizabeth and William.

* Mr. Armstrong means that William Colbron was a deacon of the First Church,
Boston, according to a statement in Gov. Winthrop's Journal. See Winthrop's New Eng-
land, vol. i. p. 37. ^

140 Samuel Turell Armstrong. [April,

My father John Armstrong,, died Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1704, aged 46
years. On May 3, 1789, was admitted to the South Church, being 41
years old.

Daniel Turell had a son and two daughters,

Samuel Turell, who had a son and daughters, Lydia Foster wife of J no.
Foster.

Eben r Turell, minister of Medford. Christian Bass.

Lydia Turell m. Jno. Foster .and had two daughters; one of these m.
Thomas Hutchinson, who had a son Thomas Hutchinson who was Governor
of Massachusetts and its historian.

Christian Turell m. Sam 1 Bass, who had Samuel, Daniel, Christian,
■Mary and others.

Christian Bass m. John Armstrong, son of [John] Armstrong* elder in
church at Portland, They had John, Mary, Samuel, Ebenezer, Rebecca,
Nancy.

Jno. Armstrong m. Elizabeth Williams and had issue, Rebecca, Nancy,
Samuel T., Jno. W,, Elizabeth and a child that died young named William.

Extract from WiU of my grt.-grandfather Samuel Bass, Tanner, Dale

rrwci

[Christian Bass joined the Old South Church, Nov. 8, 1741. |

Samuel, of John and Christian Armstrong, baptized at the Old South,
June 1, 1760.

Rebecca Armstrong — Thomas — joined the Old South, April 3, 1796.]

1762— O*. 4. t

" Relies on the merits and satisfaction of Christ, nothing doubting at the
Resurrection I shall receive my body again by the mighty power of God.

" My will is that my paw in the South Brick Church, so called, in Bos-
ton, remain for the use of my family and posterity that shall attend divine
service there, they paying the annual contribution for the same ; — likewise
that my half of a tomb in the South burying place be and remain for the
use of my family and posterity."

S. Bass admitted [to the Old South Church] Feb. 18, 1704. [1704-5.]

Friday, May 2, 1845.
Called on Henry Purkitt now over ninety years of age at his house in
South Street Court. H. P. belonged to a prayer meeting many years ago.
The following were members, as he informed me:

* John Armstrong was one of the original members of the First Church, Portland, Maine,
which was gathered March 8, 17-6-7. The Rev. Thomas Smith, the first pastor, says in
his Journal, that John Armstrong, with John Barbour, Robert Means and others, who
were original members, were a portion of the Irish immigrants who came over in 1718. and
passed the winter in Portland in very distressed circumstances, so as to be assisted by

fovernment. The colony subsequently established itself at Londonderry. — (Journals of
mith and Peane, p. 60.)

1. Samuel Bass, Christian Bass.

2. Christian Bass, Daniel Bass, Samuel Bass, Jr., Bethiah Bass.

3. Rebecca Bass, Lydia Bass, Rebecca Armstrong, John Armstrong.

4. Samuel T. Armstrong, Abigail Armstrong.

1390.] Soldiers iii King PJiilip* s Wai-, 141

--"":'-- ' Henry Purkitt, '" cooper.

t £&:•-_ - .**r William Heath, _ " sail maker,
r - ;; "^ '■- Jiio. Armstrong, painter.

Samuel Torrey,__ tanner.

• ^ - . _ "William Ilyslop, hair dresser,

"- Jno. Gordon, tobacconist.

j cr 7. Rev. Mr. Annin, pastor.

H* P. joined the church in Federal St., 1784.

The prayer meeting was held once a week. I remember to have attended

with my father one evening at the house of Mr. Wm. Heath near the

Marjboro Hotel next South of it. Mr. Heath's grave is in the Common

burying ground, and when the mall was cut thro by me 1836 that grave

was^protected specially from reverence to my father's friend.

[These memoranda are copied from a book formerly belonging to Mr. Arm- ■ •

strong, which Mr. Hill purchased a few years Jisro and presented to the Old South
Church. It contains the Confession of iFaith oi' the Old South Church and other
pamplilets relating to that Church and to Congregationalism. These and other
memoranda are written in Mr. Armstrong's handwriting, on the blank leaves of
several of the pamphlets. — Editor.]

SOLDIERS IN KING PHILIP'S WAE.

Communicated by the Eev. George M. Bodge, A.M., of East Boston, Mass.
. [Continued from page 71.]

- - - No. XXIX.

Philip, Canonchet and their Indians.

AFTER the battle with Capt Peirse (March 26, 1676) the In-
dians made a furious attack upon Rehoboth upon the 28th
day, burning some forty houses and nearly as many barns. Upon
the 29th they appeared at Providence, and though the aged Roger
Williams, the life-long friend of the southern tribes, went forth to
meet them, unarmed, and leaning upon his staff, he was met by
their old men, and warned by them that it would not be safe, even
for him, to venture amongst them ; and they 6aid also that there
were many "stranger Indians" mixed with their tribes. He was
thus forced to retire to the garrison-house with the rest of the in-
habitants, while the Indians advanced and burned some thirty houses
of the town. Robert Beers was slain, it is said, at this time. The
Indians seem after that to have broken up into small prowling bands
'which scouted upon the borders of the outlying towns ; making an
assault here and there as opportunity seemed to offer, — April 9th at
Billerica; April 19th at Andover, where they killed Joseph Abbot
and captured his younger brother Timothy, burned the house of Air.
Paulkner and wounded Roger Marks ; while another band the same
day burned the deserted houses at Marlborough, and still another
vol. xliv. 12a*

142 Soldiers 4n JTiiig Philip's War. [April,

party appeared at Hingham and ^Wey mouth, where they killed two
men, one at each place.

On April 20th they renewed the attack upon Hingham, where
they burned the houses of Israel -Ho hart, Anthony Sprague, Joseph
Jones and Nathaniel Chubbuck. On April 2 1st the -main body of
the Indians in Massachusetts swept in around Sudbury, of which
attack detailed account has been given heretofore. Account has
been given also of other attacks and operations in the .Northern parts.

In' the meantime the Connecticut people were bestirring themselves,
and had quietly-gathered some eighty of the friendly Indians of the
Mohegins and Pequods, and a band of the Niantics, whose -Sachem,
Ninigret, although a Narraganset, had remained neutral, .in appear-
ance at least. Forty-seven English soldiers were joined with these,
under command of Capt. George Denison of Stonington, and Capt.
James Avery of New London, Connecticut. The Niantics were led
by the chief Catapazat ; the Pequods by Casassimamon ; the Mohe-
gins by Oneco, son of Uncas. This force, apparently unknown to
the scouts of Canonchet, approached Pawtucket, and captured one
of his guards in the vicinity, with two women, one of whom con-
fessed that' Canonchet was near at hand with, but a small guard.
With this news, confirmed by their scouts soon afterwards, tiie force
pushed on and soon came in sight of the wigwam of the Sachem
whom they sought. When the quick ear of the chief caught the
sound of an approaching body of men he sent two of his attendants
to the top of a hill near by to ascertain the cause, and these not
returning but fleeing for their lives, two more were sent, one of
whom returned with the word that the enemy was close upon him.
He seized his gun and sought to escape, but in his flight he came
near a party of the Niantics, who gave chase so closely that he was
unable to elude them, and finally was forced to cross a small stream
where entering hastily his foot slipped on a small stone and he fell,
wetting his gun which was thus rendered useless, and he was left
defenceless ; and at the mishap, he confessed afterwards, " his heart ' .

turned within him and he became as a rotten stick, void of strength."
Monopoide, a Pequod Indian, was nearest him and overtook him
within thirty rods ot the river, and captured him without any attempt
at resistance. The pursuit was thus strenuous, because the chief
had been obliged in his flight to cast off his blanket, and then his
lace-coat which he had of late received from the English, and then
his belt of wampum, and was thus recognized.

But though helpless and captive, he was still the proud and un-
conquered chief; and when young Robert Stanton, an interpreter,
and among the first of the English to come up, began to question
him, he turned away haughtily, saying, " You much child, no under- %

stand matters of war ; let your brother or your chief come, him I
will answer." Even Mr. Hubbard was struck by his noble bearing
and heroism, and in his " Postscript," written after the first part of

1890.] Soldiers in King Philip's War, 143

hie history was printed, compares him to one of the old Romans,
Attilius Regulus, since he would not accept of his own life upon
compliance with the English. The condition seems to have been
that he would send one of hi3 Counsellors commanding his people
to yield to the English, and thus save his life. His resolution was
not to be shaken by any threats or bribes ; and when he was told of
his sentence of death, he replied that he "liked it well, that he should
die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy
of himself." He was taken to Stonington and there shot by Oneco,
son of Uncas, his life-long enemy, and two Sachems of the Pequods,
of equal rank.

There is no nobler figure in all the annals of the American Indians
than Canonchet, son of Miantonimoh, Sachem of the Narragansets.
As he had become the real head and life of the Indians at war,
so his capture was the death-blow to their hopes.

Had Canonchet lived to carry out the plans already entered upon,
it is probable that the result of the campaign of the spring and
summer would have been far different. As it was, the great body
of Indians still for some time held together, congregated upon the
Connecticut about and above the "Falls," where Capt. Turner and
his company found them and attacked them on May 18th and 19th,
1676, as has already been related.

Of all the hostile tribes in this war, historians 4 have assumed that
Philip was the leader ; and there is little doubt that he was the
manager as well as the instigator of the war. But there were many
powerful chiefs now engaged, and they were coming to realize that
the destruction and plundering of a few villages of the settlers, here
and there, resulted in provoking their vengeance, and in forcing the
Indians themselves to withdraw from their old homes into swamps
and mountains and remote places. There was disaffection among the
chiefs, as they found the situation of their tribes growing more and
more precarious, and felt the same pressure which had already driven
the Wampanoags, Narragansets and many of the Nipmucks from
their homes back upon the territory of the Northern tribes, where
they were now apparently preparing to settle for the present and
were already utilizing the fishing-places, hunting-grounds and corn-
fields. The war party, however, was greatly in the majority, being
composed of those who were actuated by desire for revenge, having
lost all; those young and impetuous, who believed that it was pos-
sible to destroy the English utterly in the way of gaining glory in
war according to their ambition, and those who saw no other way
left than to fight the war through for their lives. Philip was enabled
to maintain some show of control over these chiefs, as it was he who
had negotiated with each tribe and managed in securing for them
supplies of ammunition and arms ; while he was also the authority
to whom the French were promising supplies and men, for the
reduction of the plantations in the coming summer. No one of

144 Soldiers in King Philip's War, [April,

those now left dared to lead a revolt against Philip, and his personal
adherents were in every camp and close to every chief, so that plots
against him were sure to bring immediate vengeance upon the
plotters.

The Narragansets, after the death of Canonchet, were drawn
more under the authority of Philip, as several of the most notable
warriors among the Narraganset chiefs had been his adherents from
the start.

Pomham, or Pumham, whose territory lay next to Philip's do-
mains, was a Narraganset chief of that part of Narra^anset called
Shawomet, embracing what is now Warwick. He was considered
by the English the ablest soldier of the jS'arragansets in his day.
Although an old man, he was active in all the operations of Philip's
war. His sons also were brave leaders. He was killed, desperately
fighting for his life, in Dedham woods July 25, 1676, by a party of
English and friendly Indians under Capt. Samuel Hunting. At
the same time his son was captured, whom Mr. Hubbard describes
as "a very likely Youth, and one whose Countenance would have
bespoke Favour for him had he not belonged to so bloody and bar-
barous an Indian as his Father was." The party of Indians consisted
of some thirty-five, all of whom are said to have been "his relations
and subjects."

Qtdnnapin, a near relative of Canonicus, early espoused the
cause of Philip ; he married Weetamoo, as explained above ; was
said to have been Canonchet's Lieutenant in the " Fort Fight," and
a leader in the attack upon Lancaster in February, 1675—6. He
purchased Mrs. Eowlandson from the Indians who captured her,
and from her account we learn something of his character, habits and
family. He had two wives besides Weetamoo. When the league
of the tribes in the West was broken up, Quinnapin remained with
Philip, and returned with him to the southern parts. In August,
1676, he was captured, and upon the 24th of that month was tried
at Newport, K. I., by a Court-Martial, held by the Governor and
Assistants, and with other captives was condemned to death ; on
the 25th he was shot.

Pessacus or Mossup, a Narraganset, a nephew of Canonicus and
a very influential counsellor of Canonchet, remained with a part of
the tribe in the northern parts, and was finally killed beyond the
Pascataqua river in 1677, by the Mohawks, it is said. There were
other notable chiefs of the Narragansets who took part in the war,
Potoh, Quaqualh, " Stone- Wall- John," and others, but the first
three were the principal.

Of the Wampanoags, Philip's chief men were, Tuspaquin,
Sachem of Assowomset, who married Amie, as she was called by
the English, sister of Philip and daughter of Massasoit. Tuspaquin
was called also "The Black Sachem," and he was at the head of
the large party of Indians who, in the Spring of 1676, hung about

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the towns of Plymouth Colony and made successful raids against
Scituate, Bridgewater and Plymouth. He was one of the last to
hold out after Philip's death ; and when the wandering bands were
reduced to a few handfuls here and there, he was induced to come
in and surrender by the promise of Mr. Church, and by the capture
of his family, who were well treated and taken to Plymouth. Mr.
Church promised him that his life and the lives of his family should be
spared ; but when he came in and surrendered, Mr. Church was not
at Plymouth, and Tuspaquin was immediately tried and executed.
1 Annawon. This old chief appears to have been the meat intimate
and trusted counsellor of Philip. He was close to his chief at the
time of his death, and led the band safely out of the swamp. He
was captured soon after with the remnants of the Wampanoags, at
a place within the present limits of Rehoboth, and surrendered under
promise of " good quarter." He gave up the treasure and " royal-
ties " of Philip which he had in charge, to Mr. Church. He was
executed at Plymouth at the same time with Tuspaquin.

Totoson, son of the celebrated chief " Sam Barrow," was another
of the "great captains" of Philip who survived him awhile, only to
be destroyed by Mr. Church and his mixed company of English and
Indians.

Of other chiefs who were important actors in the war were the
various sachems of the local tribes, some of whom have received
mention in the course of this history. In the time of Philip's war
the interior tribes of Massachusetts were known under the general
term of Nipmucks or Nipnets, while it is probable that the Indians
themselves understood that name to include the tribe which lived in
the territory included in Worcester county south of Worcester city, and
probably beyond the State line, and (as Rev. J. II. Temple thinks)
upon the ponds in the present towns of " Dudley, Webster, Douglas,
Sutton, Oxford, Auburn, &c." The name Nipnet means ''fresh
water," and is supposed to have distinguished these tribes from the
"Coast Indians." The tribes living along the Connecticut and its
branches were called "River Indians," and included the Agawams,
Waranokes, Nonotucks, Pacomptucks and Squakheags. The
Quabaug Indians lived in the territory about the old town of Brook-
field. The Nashaways had their chief village at Lancaster, and
included the large villages at " Washakum Ponds " and about " Mount
Wachusett."

Of these tribes the most prominent leaders in the war were Mat-
toonuSy a Nipnet ; Monoco and " Sagamore-Sam," Nashaways ;
Maivtamp of Quabaug, and PaJcashohag, called "John of
Pakachoog."

Upon Philip's realizing the growing disaffection of the River
Indians, and made aware also of their negotiations with the English
to betray him, he left the Connecticut with his own tribe and such
of the Narragansets as still followed with him, and came to the parts

146 Soldiers in King Philip's War, fApril,

about "VVachueett, where his force was increased by many of the
Quabaugs and Nashaways, under Sagamore Sam and Mawtamp
(Muttaump). But this force was by no means manageable, for any
length of time, and only when being organized for active service.
Dissensions and jealousies began to arise, while the English were
preparing for vigorous measures of pursuit ; and about the first of
June, 1G7(), Philip, with his Wampanoags and Narraganset3, went
away towards their old home. Philip and his tribe went to Poka-
noket, or Mount Hope ; while the Narragansets passed into their
own country.

The English became aware of his presence in his old place early in
July, and thereafter he was constantly pursued by parties sent out
from Boston and Plymouth, but he could not be found. The Narra-
gansets in the meantime were being pursued and captured and
destroyed by the Connecticut forces, with their Mohegin and Pequod
allies. The principal exploit of these forces was the massacre of
the people of the n Old Queen, " Magnus, known also as the tf Sunk
Squaw," and also as M Quiapen," on July 2d. Yv T ithin a few days
more than two hundred of the enemy came in and surrendered to
the Plymouth authorities ; and between that and the close of July
there was a constant series of captures and surrenders of the Indians,
80 that Philip was left almost alone, even his wife and young son
having been captured by the English, mostly the mixed company
under Mr. Church. About the 7th of August a small company
went out from Taunton and captured a party of the Indians of
Awashonks, " Squaw Sachem " of the Sogkonate. Awashonks her-
self, trying to escape upon a small raft across the river, was drowned,
and her body being found a few days after, her head was severed, and
being placed upon a pole was paraded in the street at Taunton.

Philip at last, being hunted down by the English and Indians on
every side, retired, with a few of his staunchest friends, to his old f

retreat in a swamp at Mount Hope. Mr. Church was then in com-
mand of a scouting company of English and Indians from Plymouth,
and having passed over from Pocasset, where he left most of his
company, to Rhode Island to Major Sanford's, he there heard from
the Major and Capt. Golding, of Philip's condition, as reported by
a deserter, whose brother Philip had killed for advising surrender.
This Indian offered to pilot the English to Philip's hiding-place.
Major Sanford and Capt. Golding both offered to go with his com-
pany to assist in Philip's capture. They were soon back at " Trip's
Ferry " with the rest of his company under Capt. John Williams of
Scituate. Having arrived at the swamp, piloted by the deserter,
Mr. Church requested Capt. Golding to lead the skirmishing party,
led by the pilot, into the swamp to K beat up the quarters " of Philip.
This the Captain accepted and drew out his allotted men. Church
instructed him to creep forward as silently as possible in order to
encompass and surprise the Indians, but when discovered to shout and

1890.] Inscriptions from Burial Grounds at Danvers. 147

make all possible noise, as the orders to the various ambuscades were
to fire upon all who catne towards them silently. Mr. Church then
placed the rest of the men with most of the Indians under Capt.
Williams so as to encompass all ways of escape from the swamp,
placing an Englishman and an Indian together. Hardly had these
arrangements been completed when a musket-shot, followed by a
whole volley, rang through the swamp, and then the general onset
began. The Indians were taken completely by surprise, and Philip,
springing hastily from his sleep under the rude open wigwam, seized
his powder-horn and gun and started from the hillside where he had
made his camp, for the deeper security of the swamp. But in
his flight he came face to face with two of Mr. Church's men, and,
the Englishman's musket missing fire, the Indian immediately shot
the great chieftain through the breast, so that he fell forward upon
his face with his gun beneath him, in the water of the swamp. The
Indian who killed Philip was named Alderman, and is said to have
been the same who betrayed his hiding-place. When this Indian
ran to Mr. Church with the news of his achievement, he was told
to keep it secret until after the rest of the enemy had been beaten
out of the swamp, or captured or killed. Their retreat and escape
from the English was ably conducted by old Annawon, Philip's chief
Sachem. When all the company had gathered about the place
where Philip's party had bivouacked, Mr. Church told them the
great news of Philip's death, and presently ordered some of the
Indians to drag him out of the swamp to the solid land. There he
was chopped in quarters and beheaded, and left unburied ; his head
and one hand were given to Alderman as a reward, and in Mr.
Church's account, it is said that he got "many a penny" by show-
ing the hand.

Such was the end of Philip of Mount Hope, one of the most re-
markable characters in all American history, whose biography has
never yet been adequately written, and who, although by no means
a hero, or a character to be admired, was without doubt a wise and
skilful leader, and more dreaded by the colonists than any other man
before or after him.

His death was heard of with universal rejoicing in the colonies,
and was considered as the practical close of the war.

INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE BURIAL GROUNDS IN THE OLD
TOWN OF DANVERS.

Copied by the late Samuel P. Fowler, of Danvers, Mas3.

Brig. Gen. Moses Porter of the army of the U. S. A. — An ardent and
inflexible patriot, a brave and honourable Soldier, unassuming and virtuous
citizen; a generous and faithful friend — He served his country with
distinguished ability and reputation, from the commencement of the Revolu-

148 Inscriptions from Burial Grounds at Danvers. [April,

tionary War, till he expired full of years and honours on the 14 of April
A.D. 1822 M Q6—

" How sleep the brave who sink to rest,

By all their Country's wishes blest."

Erected to the memory of Hon. Samuel Hoi ton, who died January 2 1816
aged 78 years — He sustained various offices of trust under the State
Government, and that of the Union with ability and integrity to the
almost unanimous acceptance of his constituance.

" Peace to the memory of a man of worth." |

Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Hoi ton consort of the Hon. Samuel
Holten, who departed this life Aug. 29 1813 aged 76 years-
She was an amiable, worthy woman.
Sacred to the memory of Jethro Putnam Esqr — who departed this life
May 16 1814 aged 53 years — He was Col. of the 5 Regiment, l rt
Brigade and 2 d division of the Massachusetts militia —
A good soldier and worthy man.
In memory of Caleb Oakes who died greatly lamented Sept. 17 A.D.
1831 aged 68 years-
May he have a blessed resurection at the right hand of Jesus Christ.
Erected to the memorv of Mrs. Saliv Osgood wife of Doct. George Osgood,
who died Sept. 17 A.D. 1821 aged 36 years-
Ne'er to those mansions where the virtuous rest,
Since their foundations came a worthier guest,
Nor to the Bowers of bliss, was e'er conveyed
A milder spirit or more welcome shade.

In. memory of Capt. Jeremiah Putnam who died Sept 16 1799 — An officer

under the Immortal Washington — i

This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, |

May truly say, Here lies an Honest Man.

In memory of Doctor Archelaus Putnam who died April 14 1800, iE 56 —

Depart my friends, dry up your tears,
Here I must lie till Christ appears.
For death's a debt to nature due,
I've paid the debt and so mu3t you.

Here lies Intombed the remains of the Rev Mr. Peter Clark, for almost 51
years the painful labourer and faithful pastor of the First Church in this
town — He was a great Divine; an accomplished Christian; in whose
character y e most exemplary patience, humility and meekness were
illustriously displayed — Ho was born March 12 1693 — Graduated at
Harvard College in Cambridge 1712, ordained pastor of y° first Church
in this Town June 5 1717 — He lived much esteemed and respected and
after a long life spent in the service of religion, he died much lamented
June 10 1768 iEtatis 76—

"Wrapt in his arms who bled on Calvary's Plain,

We murmer not Blest Shade, nor dare complain —

Tied to those seats where perfect spirits shine,

We mourn our lot, yet still rejoice in thine ;

Taught by thy tongue, By thy example lead,

We Bless'd the living, and revere the Dead.

Sleep here thy Dust, till the Last Tramp shall Sound

Then shalt thou rise and be with perfect Glory Crown'd-

[To be continued.]

189G:] - Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. 149

SIMON FERDINANDO AND JOHN WALKER IN MAINE,

1579-1580.

By the Rev. B. F. DeCosta, D.D., of New York City.

IN -the third volume of "the Narrative and Critical History of
America" (pp. 171 and 186), the writer has stated a few facts
with respect to Simon Ferdinando, who, so- far as his knowledge
extends, led the first English expedition to the region now covered
by the State of Maine, but then .known as a part of Norombega.*

Prior to the publication of the above-mentioned work, Simon Ferdi-
nando was known in connection with the voyages to Virginia, begin-
ning with the year 1584. In 1586 he served with White, who
quarrelled, and loaded him with abuse. \ This was echoed by William-
son, J. and emphasized by Dr. Hawkes,§ who styled him a " treacherous
villain" and "contemptible mariner," declaring thatjie .was a Span-
iard hired by his nation to deceive the English colony. Later,
however, the account of his services under Grenville, 1585, came to
light, and his faithfulness and skill are highly applauded by Ralph
Lane, |! thus relieving his memory from unjust aspersions. It now
remains to speak of what he accomplished in 1579, prior to his
Virginia voyagc3.

Simon Ferdinando was a Portuguese, not a Spaniard. There is,
however, to be had at present only a glimpse of his voyage, which is
brought to light in one of the papers connected with David Ingram,
who, with two companions, is believed to have travelled on the-Indian
trails from the Bay of Mexico to Maine during 1567-8, embarking on
a French ship somewhere near the St. John's River. H The essential •
part of the narrative relating to Ferdinando comprises a few lines as
follows :

"1579 Simon fferdinando Mr. Secretary Walsingham's man went and
came from the same coast w th in three monthes in the little ffrigate without
any other consort, and arrived at Dartmouth where he ymbarked when he
beganne his viage."

The "said coast" was none other than the region of Norombega,
the present State of Maine, towards which, at that time, all eyes
were turned. Certain disconnected events which preceded the voy-

* The material comprising: the present article has been kept in hand for quite a long
term of years, in the hope that leisure might be found to pursue the matter further. The
prospect of such leisure daily becoming less, it is now turned over to the Register, in the
hope that some of its readers may he able to take up the subject and carry it on.

t Hakluyt, III. 280. +Hist. Carolina, I. bli. § Hist. N. Carolina, I. 196.

|| Archeologia Amcricana t IV. 11; and Col. State MSS., I. Aug. 12, loSo.

"!T "Magazine of American History," Vol. IX. 16S; "Colonial State Papers." Vol. I. No.
2, and the Tanner MSS., Bodleian Library, Oxford.
VOL. XLIV. 13

150 Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. j^Aprl],

age of Ferdinando also gain some notice, though of the detaild of
the voyage itself nothing can he learned at present.

It appears that, in 1577, :t Simon Ferdinando a Portuguese," was
called at Cardiff to testify with respect to the piracy of "John Callice
and other pirates." Ferdinando says that he sailed with "Gallic"
or " Callice, " two years previous as pilot, Callice having w a shipp at
Rye prepared to passe to the Indians," meaning the West Indies ;
and that a Portuguese ship was plundered, though, being sick, he was
not charged with complicity. He says that they met the Portuguese
vessel when " travelling towards America." 'Some time after, evi-
dently in 157G, he "bought a little bark," and made a profitless
cruise towards the Canaries. This vessel cost him "forty marks,"
and was probably the "little ffrigate" in which he sailed to New
England. Afterwards he was cast into jail "upon suspicion of her-
esy," though he was liberated and became Secretary " Walsingham's
man."

Upon his return he appears to have been interested in matters that
concerned Frobisher : and, November 7th, 1581, he addressed a
letter to that adventurer.* The following year, May 1st, he was
mustered as first pilot in the "galleon Leicester"! under Fenton,
bound to the Moluccas ; also serving as pilot to the Virginia expe-
ditions of 1585 and 1587. Ferdinando, according to Lane, pos-
sessed "grete skylle and grete government," and w r as a trusty man.
With the notice of this voyage, set on foot apparently by Secretary
Walsingham, Simon Ferdinando passes out of sight until 1585,
when he sailed to Virginia. Nevertheless he performed his part,
and deserves honorable mention amongst those worthies who, by
their labors and sacrifices, prepared the way for the occupation of
New England. J

\
I

* British Museum MSS., VIII. Otho, .fol. 100. f Ibid, fol. 205.

X In 1577 Cardilf, Wales, had become the headquarters of a large gang of pirates, sixty
of whom had their maintainers there, and, though well known, the town's people were un-
willing to give information. April 3d, of that year, a Commission sat to examine the mat-
ter, and on March 17th Ferdinando testified. The following was drawn by the author from
the dingy archives :

"The said Simon fferdinando sayeth that he knoweth Gallic and hath knowen him the
space of these three or four yeares last past but he went not to sea w th him vntill w th in
these two yeares ffor he sayeth that aboutes Michelmas was two years the said Callic sent
for this Exaiat then being at London and then declared to the Exaiat [Examinant] that M r
Harry Knowles had a shipp at Rye prepared to passe to the Indians and that this Exaiat
should be Pylatt thereof yf he lysted and that the same was the requeast of the said M r
Knowles, and in deede to that effect the said M r Knowles did speake to this Exaiat himself
and sayeth that according to that request this Examinant take vpon him to be Pylatt of w ch
shipp the said Callic was M r and one fferdinando was Capitaine.

And we traveling to the seas ffor want of weather they taryed long vpon the cost of Eng-
land and by reason thereof spent much of their victual and yet in the end travelling
towordes America they met w ih a Portimxall vpon the costes of the land of Portingall and
from him they toke aboutes 100 chestes of Sugar being part of his loding and haveing gotten
that pryse they arvyed w tb the same at the rode of Penmarth besyde Cardief in the Countifl
of Glaymorgan aboutes Allhalowtide [Nov. 1] last was two ycres the said Callic the 3i r
and fferdinando the Captaytic made sad thereof to divers persons to whome certainly he
knoweth not ffor he this Exaiat was then and for this tyme the shipp laye there at rode was
verry like to have died and more touching the circumstances of that journey he cannot sayo
saving that they gave this exaiat tenne pounds of the commodity they had by the sale ot
that sugar.

1890.] Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. 151

The material giver in the long extract, appended as a note, is of
interest, as giving some account of the life of Simon Ferdinando,
who no doubt possessed many of the characteristics of sailors of that
period, the best of whom kept a "nice conscience" no more than
Chaucer's "Shipman," usually being ready for plunder.

The information came to light in connection with a formal exami-
nation of David Ingram, which was also the occasion of bringing John
Walker to notice. We give the papers entire, taking first the
examination of David Ingram, which is a separate paper from his
narrative, edited by the present writer.* It will be seen by the side
remarks of the person who took down the account, that Ingram's
statements in some places agree with those of " Sir Humphrey Gil-
bert's man," who, a3 we shall see, was John Walker, following
Ferdinando in 1580. But. let us proceed with Ingram's case, re-
membering that early visitors to America were reckless in their
descriptions and beliefs, — the Popham colonists in Maine in 1()07
discovering nutmegs : Henry Hudson finding cliffs shining with
silver; one expedition carrying to England a cargo of shining earth,
thinking it was gold ; while the Pilgrims at Plymouth heard lions in
the woods, climbing a tree, like Ingram, to escape them, and the
Dutch in New Nctherland discovered unicorns and other strange
beasts. The statement runs as follows :

Certeyne questions to be demaunded of Davy Ingram
sayler dwellinge at Barkinge in the coimtye of Essex, what
he observed in his travel! one the North side of the ryver of
May where he remayned three moneths or thereabouts.

And further this cxaiat sayeth that after this exaiat lying Ion? at Cardiffe bought a little
bark of Willm. Herbert Esq* deceased kite vice adrairall for the W h he paied forty marks
and the same prepared to go to the seas to the Canarries & abonfes a twelvemonth & more
past furnishing that barck w Ul nyne or teime men travelling long vpon the seas towards
that countrie of the Canarries and re tome again w-\mt doeing anything but losing their
Journey their tyme and spending all they had. 1 and sythens [since] that tyme this cxni.it
hath had no doeing vpon the seas and sayeth that those nyne "or tehnc men whose names
are these Christopher Horsham of the Isle of Whight was m r of the shipp who is now de-
ceased Richard Horsham his Brother Edward Clayes and tiie rest he sayeth he knoweth
not their nanies but they were Englishmen of what countrie he knoweth no : And further
sayeth that one Riehnsd Aldersay of London was in the former journey in taking the suger
w th them but not in this journey.

Being asked also who did help to furnish his shipp to the Canarries snveth that one Willm
Riccards, Robert Adams & John Thomas Bruer, of Cardiffe, did help to furnish the shipp,
and sayeth that the shipp and all the furniture amounted to the value of CLI. and no Hot-
ter sayeth that lyeing out tenne or twelve weekes w th the shipp they returned w th out doeing
anything as before by reason whereof Richards, Adams and John Thomas lost their parts
Of their stock without commodity.

But this Journey as he sayeth was taken in hand at the beginning of Maye was twelve-
month. And further sayeth that after his return home from that journey he was commit-
ted to the shrieiis gayolf the countie of Glamorganshire by Thomas Lewis Esq r a justice of
peace vpon suspicion of heressie and there remayned the space of 14 weeks and afterwards
this Exaiat was hay led by the said Willm Herbert the then vice-adtnirall and Willm Ma-
thew Esq r two of the Justices and sayeth that vpon Ins apprehension hcins asked certain
questions of M r Lewis of his two journies he answering the same, and was committed to
the gayoll by the said M r Lewis as before he hath said and after that he was sett at libertie
as without examination when he was bayied as aforesaid." — Dom. Elizabeth MSS. Vol.

cxir. s. ii.

* Mag, Am. History, Vol. IX. 16S.— Ingram was put on shore with a large number of
companions, by Sir John Hawkins.

es to

££ 8 " be many pillors that upholdeth many things of gold and silver very massye

152 Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. [[April,

He hath l. Imn r s howe longe the saved Ingram travyled one ye North side of the

confessed yt _ u * 8 Jo J J

he travelled Ryver ot May.*

there three £. Ite. whether that country be frutfull, and what kinde of fruts there be.

He hath confessed y* it is excedinge fruteful and that there is a tre as he

called it a plum ten tree, w ch of the leaves thereof being pressed will come

a very excellent lycor as pleasant to drincke and as good, as any kinde of

winue.

3. Ite. what kinde of beasts and cattell he saw there.
He hath confessed, y l he sawe A Beast in all ooints like unto a horse,

.•savinge he had two longe tusks, of w ch beast he was put in great daunger
■of his lyfe, but he escaped by elyminge a tree. Also that there he wyld
horses of goodly shape but the people of the country have not the use of
them.

ffurther that there be shepe, w ch beareth redde woole somme thinge
course there flesh good to eat, but is very redde.

4. Ite what kinde of people there be, and how they be aparrelled.
He hath confessed y 4 farre into the land there be many people, and that

he sawe a towne half a myle longe, and hath many streats farr broader then

any streat in London. I

ffurther yt the mea gooe naked savinge only the myddell part of them
covered w th skynnes of beasts and w th leaves. And that generallye all men
weare about there arines dyvers hoopes of gold and silver w ch are of good
thicknes and lykwyse they weare the lyke about the smale of there leggs
w ck hoopes are garnished w th pearle dyvers of them as bigge as ones
thume.

That the womenne of the countrj^e gooe apareled w th plats of gold over
there body much lyke unto an armor about the middest of there bodye they
weare leafes, w ch hath growinge there one very longe much lyke unto heare.
and lykwyse about there armes and the smale of there leggs they weare

s Hurafrye hoopes of gold and sylver garnyshed w th fayer pearle.

roan*vv£hhe «►. Ite what kind of buildings and houses tliey have in that country.

S over t0 i d ud ^ e k atn con ^ esse( ^ J* ^ ie y buyld there bowses round lyke a Dovehouse
reporteth and hath in like manner a louer on the topps of there bowses and that there

there hows

buyltin and great and lykewyse many pyllors of Cristall
morjcSule. 6. Ite whether there is any quantitye of gold, silver and pearle and. of
.other iewells in that country.

He hath confessed that there is great aboundance of gold, sylver and pearle

and that he hath seanne at the heads of dyvers springs and in smale rounninge

brouks dyvers peaces of gold soume as bigge as his fynger, others as bigge

as his fyst and peaces of dyvers bignes. ^

ffurther that he seanne great aboundance of pearle and dyvers strannge

s-rH.Gyl- stones of what sort or valewe he knewe not.

broughTof ^' * te Aether he sawe A beast farre exceydinge an ox in bignes.

the syds of He hath confessed that there be in that country great aboundance of a

from* 8 kinde of beast almost as bigge agayne as an oxe in shape of body not much

tX A? F laee h f differinge from an oxe, savinge that he hath eares of a great bignes, that

'are in fashone much like unto the eares of a bloudhouud havinge thereou

very longe heare, and lykwyse on his breast, and other parts of his bodye

longe heare.

ffurther he hath reported of dyvers kinds of wyld beasts whose skynnes

* John Walker who went out to Norombega in 15S0. t Ibid.

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Ferdinando and Walker in 'Maine. 153

are very rich furres, lykwyse of dyvers kinds of fruts and trees of great
eastiniatione.

That there is a tree w ch beareth a frute lyke an aple but is poyson to
eate for the aple beinge broken there is a blacke lycor in the mydest thereof.
Also that there is a tree that the barke thereof tasteth lyke pepper.
Divers other matters of great importaunce he hath, confessed (yf they be
true) w ch he sayeth that upon his lyie he ofFereth to goe to the place, to
approve the same true.
(Endorsed)

ab* 1584. Questions to be demanded of

David Ingram concerning his
knowledge of a discovery.*

Next may be given a statement of things " over & above that
which Ingram upon his examination did Confesse," the statement
relating to both Ferdinando and Walker and seeming to have been fur-
nished through Sir Humphrey himself. At least he conferred per-
sonally with Walker, who was " his man."

The Keporte of Iteme that haue travelled the afore said Countryes w th
the note of the such things as they haue found there, ouer and aboue that
which Ingram upon his examinacon did confesse, whose names are Verer-
zsfijus, Jaques Cartier, John Barros, Andrewe Thevett,f John Walker of
w ch number S 8 Humfrey Gylbert did conferre in person with the three last
named.

.1579 Simon flerdinanclo M r Secretary Walsinghams man went and came
to and from the said coast w th in three months in the little irrigate w th out
any other consort, and arryved at Dartmouth where he ymbarked when he
beganne his viage.

, . ^ Note
^ 81C ' 1580.

John Walker Englishman and his Company did discover, a siluer mine
w tb in the Riuer of Norambega, on the North shore upon a hill not farre
from the riuere side about IX leagues from the mouth thereof where he
founde the said riuer VII leagues or thereabout ouer and XVIII fadome
and haulf deepe. The riuer at the mouth beinge about X leagues broade,
and XXV fadome deepe w th out barre.

And the said riuer to holde that his breadthe so much farther then he
was as he coulde possibly kenne, beinge by estimacon about XX miles.

The Country was most excellent both for the soyle, diuersity of sweete
woode and other trees. Who also founde at the same time in an Indian
house VII miles w th in the lande from the ryvers side aboue III C drj-e hides,
I whereof the most parte of them were eighteene foote by the square.

Both he and his Company sayled from the said Coast into Englaude in
XVII dayes.J

That the said coast was the region lying south of Nova Scotia

* Col. State Papers, Dom. Elizabeth. Vol. 175, No. 95. Public Record Office, London.

t Thevet, the writer lias endeavored to prove, never saw New England, and described
it only through the relations of others.— See "The Northmen in Maine."

% Col. State Papers, Vol. I. No. 2.— Public Record Office, London. Many of the old
Stories about silver have failed; this by Walker is vindicated by the fact that silver mining
is now a recognized industry around the Penobscot region, where new mines are being
opened. Gold is also found in paying quantities ; while the pearl oyster formerly abounded
in NeW England waters, the Pilgrims tiuding pearls at Cape Cod in 1620.
VOL. XLIV. 13*

154 Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. [April,

there can be no doubt. This is apparent from the account of what
followed, which it may be well to state briefly.

It appears that, in 1580, Sir Humphrey had been obliged to
transfer his patent to lands in the new world, but, nevertheless, he
sent out an expedition that year, under Walker, as his full state-
ment dready quoted under that date proves. Still he was deter-
mined not to withhold himself from enterprise, while we read in Dr.
Dee's Diary, under July 16, 1582, this entry :

"A meridie hor 3.J cam Sir George Peckham to me to know the
tytle of Kbrombega in respect of Spayn and Portugall."* The fol-
lowing year Gilbert once more sailed. March 11th, Aldworth, Mayor
of Bristol, William Salterne and others, whose families were after-
ward connected with efforts in New England, agreed to furnish a
ship of sixty and a bark of forty tons, " to be left in the country "
under Mr. Carlisle, who probably did not go,f though the two vessels
seem to have been included in the fleet of five sail. At the last
moment, Spanish influence nearly succeeded in keeping Sir Humphrey
at home. England again felt the baneful power that delayed the
voyage of Verrazano. The Bull of Alexander was still a power, J
and the Armada was already foreshadowed. Clearing himself of the
charge of piracy, brought by Spanish spies, Sir Humphrey got to
6ea, June 11th. Ralegh's ship was obliged to put back, on account
of sickness amongst the crew, but the rest went on, reaching New
Foundland July 80th. August 5th, Gilbert took formal possession
in the name of the Queen, and one ship was despatched to England.
Still, as the Patent required actual possession in the region of New
England, he sailed southward, and, August 27th, reached the
latitude of 44° N. The next evening was fair, and " like the swanne
that singeth before her death." Those in the Admiral sounded trumpets
and indulged in merriment. But the next day a storm arose, and
the Admiral w T as lost upon a shoal near Sable Island with nearly all
her crew. There now remained only the " Hind " and the " Squer-
rell," a "little frigate" of twelve tons, and but few supplies. , Sir
Humphrey did not deem it prudent to sail farther south, and accord-
ingly shaped his course for home. Though admonished of the risk
he ran in trusting himself to the frigate, lie proceeded in this over-
laden craft, the deck covered with nets and artillery, to recross the
Atlantic, whose waves were already smitten by the autumnal gales.

When north of the Azores they met with much bad weather " and
terrible seas, breaking short and high pyramid wise." Then
when night came, the sailors on the great ship, the Hind, saw the
nre of St. Elmo playing upon one end of the main yard, which,
when it appears double, is an auspicious sign that the "seamen doe
call Castor and Pollux " ; "but," it is added, "we had only one"

* Diary, p. 8. Ibid, 16. Hakluyt III. 170.

t Ibid, p. 182, and Read's i4 Henry Hudson."

t Records of Privy Council in Edwards's " Life of Ralegh," I. 78.

1890.] Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. 155

and accordingly they accepted it as a sign of doom. Nevertheless,
Sir Humphrey was as strong of heart as ever, and we read : " Munday
the ninth of September, in the afternoon, the Frigat was neere cast
away, oppressed by waves, yet at that time recovered : and giving
forth signes of iuy, the Generall sitting abaft with a booke in his
hand, cried unto us in the Hind (so oft as we did approch within
hearing) We are as neere to heaven by sea as byiand. Reiterating
the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Jesus Christ,
as I can testifie he was." Still the Knight was engaged in his last
adventure, and his brave heart could not save him from the sea.
Hence we read again, that "the same Monday night, aboute twelve
of the clocke, or not long after, the Frigat being ahead of vs in the
Golden Ilinde, suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a
moment, we lost the light, and vvithall our watch cryed, the Generall
was cast away, which was too true. For at that moment tiie frigate
was devoured and swallowed vp by the Sea." We are to notice,
however, that he had intended to colonize in the region described by
Verrazano, and it was this region that Hays referred to as a country
extending northward from Florida, " lying vnder very temperate
Climes."* Clarke also says that they w r ere " going for the discovery
of Norumbcga."f The Mayor of Bristol spoke more definitely in
his reply to Walsingham, " concerning a Western voyage intended
for the discovery of the coast of America lying to the south-west of

(Cape Briton."
There were those who favored this expedition for other than
mercantile considerations. Christopher Carlile, the person nominated
by Aldworth to go out with the two ships furnished by himself and
friends, in advocating a Colony during the April preceding the
voyage, associated New England colonization with the exercise of
a religion not to be enjoyed elsewhere in foreign parts by British
subjects. He says :

" And to the godly minded it hath this comfortable commoditie, that in this
trade their factours, bee they servants or children, shall have no instruction'
or confessions of Idolatrous Religion enforced upon them, but coutrarily
shall be at their free libertie of Conscience, and shall find the same
Religion exercised, which is most agreeable to their parents and masters."!

The particular site had in view for the colony has already been
pointed out ; and Carlile says : " But who shall look into the qualities
of this vovacre, bein^ directed to the latitude of fortie decrees or there-
aboutes, of that hithermost part of America shal find it has as many
points of good moment belonging vnto it, as may almost be wished
for."§ He then speaks of the shortness and safety of the voyage,
which could be made with a single wind at all times of the year.

* Hakluytlll. 143; Ibid, 173.
t Bid, 182.

X Hakluvt III. 181. The Plymouth Colonists had no more advanced idea of religious
liberty than this.
$ Ibid, 184.

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So confident were the members of Gilbert's expedition of success,
that the learned Hungarian, Stephanas Parmenius Budeius, et Master
of Arts and Philosophic" and the "friend & brother" of Hakluyt,
was taken in the enterprise, expressly to record the high proceedings
of the intended Norombega colony in Latin Verse ; as the subject
would be adorned with " the eloquent stile of the Orator and rare
Poet of our time."* But this was not to be. Parmenius, of Buda,
found a watery grave at the wreck of the Admiral, and Norombega
remained unsung.

This excursion is made into the period which follows Ferdinando
and Walker, to indicate the more distinctly the situation of Norom-
bega, for while some had their attention fixed upon the latitude of
the Hudson, these two navigators had distinctly in view the region
lying around the great river which appears in a long series of ancient
maps, and which was none other than the Penobscot, to which, as
already said, Simon Ferdinando the Portuguese led the first known
English expedition.

We have next to turn to John Walkerand note the abiding: faith
of Gilbert in the promise of the new land. Circumstances had
forced him to transfer his Patent, but he succeeded in sending out a
little party to make observations and engage in trade. The voyage
made at his instance had for its destination the Maine coast, and the
agent employed was one John Walker, afterwards perhaps a clergy-
man of the English Church. We have seen that a marginal entry in a
manuscript in the State Paper Office, already given, runs as follows :
w Sir H. Gilbert's man brought of the syds of this beast from the
place he discovered."! The beast referred to was of the kind men-
tioned in the examination of David Ingram, of 1582, and the voy-
age of discovery was one of recent date. A careful examination
shows that the year 1580 was the only one in which such a discovery
could have been made for Gilbert, while under that year we have,
through Sir Humphrey, the voyage which answers the description,
the John Walker referred to having made a voyage to Norombega,
where he obtained the "syds" or hides.

In speaking of rivers, the old voyagers seldom made any distinction
between the estuary and the river proper. This was clearly the case
in the present instance by Walker, who does not appear to have been a
navigator ; but the rough estimate agrees sufficiently well with the map
of the Coast Survey, which gives a width of twenty-one miles to
the entrance of Penobscot Bay, between the Isle au Haut and
White Head. But the old sailors, in the absence of surveys, might
include the distance between White Head and Deer Island, which
would correspond to the computation of Walker, who made the
Norombega ten leagues wide at its entrance. There is also room
for his estimate of seven leagues in width, nine leagues in, as well

* Hakluyt III. 156. Specimens of his " stile " may be found in Hakluyt III. 138.
t Ante, page 152.

1890.]

Ferdinando and Walker in Maine. 157

as abundance of deep water. Beyond question it was the Penobscot
that he had in mind, and actually visited, as the Norombega River.
It is so well known that the Penobscot was acccepted at that period
as the Norombega, that it would be idle to argue the question.
Champlain and Lescarbot, in the fallowing century, never doubted
this, though they were disappointed upon finding no evidence of the
City, which probably was never anything more than an Indian
village carrying on a trade with the French and English in peltry.
The French had other trading places, and notably, that of Boston
Harbor and the Charles Iliver, as John Smith testifies, and evidences
of their occupation may yet be established ; but, nevertheless, the
Norombega will always be identified with the noble Penobscot.*

This voyage of Walker, so thoroughly attested as to leave no doubt
with regard to its performance, had express reference to the plans
of Sir Humphrey, which the latter proceeded to execute in 1583.
It is not indicated that Walker was the navigator of the expedition,
though he may have been. At all events he represented Sir Ferdi-
nando, and probably was a layman like Robert Saiterne, supercargo
of Pring in 1603, and who afterwards became a clergyman of the Es-
tablishment. At any rate, Walker the commercial man in search of
w Hyds " disappears after the voyage, while Walker the clergyman
appears immediately as a chaplain upon the high seas. A manu-
script that might have given light on the subject has been injured by
fire.f Still we maj' notice that, June 23, 1583, Fenton speaks of

* We may here append a translation made from the manuscript of Jehan AUcfonsee in
the Bibliolhcque Nationale, Paris, who was on this coast in 154:2. and describes Norombega
and its River, though like the most of the accounts of that period, it is two degrees out
of the way in latitude. In his estimate of the river, it will be seen he takes in all the water
from White Head to Mount Desert. He says : " The River is more than forry leagues wide
at its entrance, and retains its width some thirty or forty leagues. It is full of Islands,
which stretch some ten or twelve leagues into the sea. and are very dangerous on account
of rocks and shoals. The said river is in 42 N. L. Fifteen leagues within this river there
is a town called Norombega, with clever inhabitants, who trade in furs of all sorts; the
towns folk arc dressed in furs, wearing sable. I question whether the said river enters
the Hochelnga. For more than forty leagues it is salt water, at least so the town folk say.
The people use many words which sound like Latin. They worship the sun. They are-
tall and handsome in form. The land of Norombega lies high and is well situated." This,
every visitor to this stately and impo«in£ region knows to be true; but the ''Latin" came
of the old disposition to follow phonetic resemhianee.

t In the Cotton MSS. British Museum (Otho E. VIII. fol. 130) is a letter by Walker to the
Earl of Leicester, written when at the point of sailing. Owin^ to the ravages of the fire
it is more or less undecipherable, but the best possible version is appended. The blank
spaces show where the edges of the manuscript were burned off: —

" Barnes w th d me w ta greate frendlynesse

a ever bounden vnto yo r L for sendinge m synce my

deptute fro the courte, I have byn have taken instytutyo and inductyon into

the . . . fyllacke whyche her Ma" bestowed vpo me, and . .". . for, to S r John
Arundell: The Bvshopp shewed .... curtesye he myghte: and assured me of his
frend [ship?] he knowethe that it was her Ma ties to geve, whe .... it graunted : my
moste humble sute vnto yo r good .... yo r L would be a meanes vnto her Ma tie that

I dyspensed w tb to keepe my lyving vntvll I rcturne frothe indyans: M*

Cud worthe wyll bringe yo r L the . . . to be assy^ned, w ch M r Secratary wyll procure

at ... L fyrst wrot yo, for yf 1 may have my poore ly vinsje my cOminge

agayne, I shall thinke my selfe well satisfy .... I am now somewhat in debte, and
the pfytt thereof (the tyme of my absence) wyll dyscharge the same, to the greate quyett-
ness of my coscyence. And for my selfe bothe harte and hande I wyll ctftynue and ever
remayne as faythfull a s'rvaunte as ever yo r L had in s'rvice :

Whereof I hope yo r L shall have good experyence yf ever I returne The allmyghtye

158 Col. John Jones of Dedham. [April,

John Walker as chaplain to the Earl of Leicester, though he went
as Chaplain with Fenton* in the attempted expedition to the Moluccas.
He was a member of the Council of Advice, and was attached to
the " Edward. "f The expedition sailed, and in February, 1584,
Walker was taken sick. The journal contains the following entry •
w The 5 day about 10. aclocke in the forenoone M. Walker died,
who had bene weake and sicke. The bloodie flixe 6. dayes, wee
tooke a view of his things, and prised them, and heaved him. over-
board, and shot a peece for his knell. "J

Walker was evidently a humane man, using his influence to heal
dissensions in the ill-starred expedition, and preventing the admiral
from exercising great cruelty.

Thus, tossing upon the waves of the lonely Southern Sea, he, who
probably was the explorer of Norombega in 1580, died, and there he
found his burial. But his influence did not perish with him. The
knowledge which he acquired went to swell the sum of Sir Hum-
phrey Gilbert's information, and helped to spur him on to undertake
his last voyage, or, otherwise, to lure him on to death ; for, knight
and priest, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and "his man" found a common
sepulture in the sea.

COL. JOHN JONES OF DEDHAM AND HIS PATERNAL

ANCESTORS IN AMERICA.

By his grandson, Amos Perry,!L,L.D., of Providence, R. I.

JOHN JONES of Dedham is called in Mrs. Stowe's "Oldtown
Folks" /Sheriff Jones , and in Dr. Bond's Genealogies and History
of Watertown Col, John Jones. He was born in Weston, Mass.,
Oct. 30, 1716, O. S. In 1740, he purchased a farm situated about
sixteen miles from Boston on a promontory and peninsula, in a
section of country that became Nov. 18, 1748, the westerly or
fourth precinct of Dedham ; and July 7, 1784, the District of Dover,
and May 31, 1836, the town of Dover. His farm, shaped somewhat

God p'serve vo r L in most happve estate to his glorye & yo r L hartes desvre. Southe-
hampto this xxip of Apryll : 15S2.

Y r honorable L most bounden

s'vaunte JoHtf Walker.

May it please yo r L to p:eve me leave further to advertyse yo r L: that the ryghte worshypp-
full Sr Fraivncys Drake hathe vsed me \v th the greateste frendeshyppe that any myghte
desyre: bothe in instrnctinge mc in the voyage and in deadline lyherallye w th rae and my
fellowe preacher: for the why the I besecnb yo r L geVe him thankes

[Addressed:] To the ryghte honorable my
Singular good Laud M r the
erle of Leycester geve these."
• MSS. in British Museum, Otho VIII. f. 87.

t Bloane MSS. No. 2146, f. 73, and Otho VIII. fols. 142 and 179-200.
X Uakluyt, Vol. III. p. 767. Otho, f. 140.

i i

1890.] Col, John Jones of Dedham. 159

like a horseshoe, was washed on three sides by Charles river. There
he built soon after his purchase a well timbered, comely house in
which he lived three score years. In this house all his children
were born, and one son, two wives and himself died. Here courts
were held and a variety of business transacted. The house remained
on the same site and was used as a dwelling from 1740 till 1875,
when it was removed and three years later torn down. Further
information about this estate may be found on pages 89 to 94 in a
publication of the South Natick Historical Society, issued in 1884.

Col. Jones's home was called in a chronicle of the last century a
secluded retreat; it was readied, until early in this century, only
by either fording Charles Kiver or by going from the Dedham
(Claybrook) road three quarters of a mile through a dense forest, or
an equal distance from South Natick by a circuitous route along the
brow of the hill, beginning at the gravel pit near the present canal
bridge. This place was owned by the .Jones family from 1740
till 1804, and just seventy years thereafter (1874) it became the
country seat of Mr. B. P. Cheney of Boston, who, appreciating its
natural advantages and historic associations, began a series of im-
provements which have resulted in making it easy of access and one
of the most attractive and delightful places in that region.

Col. Jones died at his home in Dover, Feb. 2, 1801, and was
buried in the ancient burial ground of South Natick Village, which is
only half a mile in direct line from his Dover estate and a mile
from Mr. II. H. Hunnewell's Gardens, Lake Waban, and Wel-
lesley Female College. His intention of marriage was published
Oct. 17, 1742. lie was married, Feb. 23, 1742-3, by Eev.
Oliver Peabody of Natick, to Hannah, daughter of David and Sarah
Morse, who was born in Sherborn, Feb. 18, 1720-21, and died in
Dedham, April 13, 1754. His intention of 2d marriage was pub-
lished Aug. 11, 1754. He was married, Oct. 31, 1754, by Rev.
Andrew Tyler of Dedham Third Precinct (West Dedham), to
Tabitha, daughter of Nathaniel and Tabitha Battelle and sister of
Nathaniel Battelle, H. U. 17G5. She was born in Dedham, June
25, 1731, and died there Nov. 8, 1800.

Col. Jones held various civil, military and ecclesiastical positions.
He was successively school teacher ; civil engineer ; Colonel in the
militia ; proprietors' clerk of Natick ; guardian of the Natick Indians,
and justice of the peace. In 1793, when Norfolk county was set
off from Suffolk, he was president of the Court of General Sessions
of that county, and he was for a long period a deacon in the old
Peabody-Badger Church, where he had for a colleague an Indian
named Joseph Ephraim, who was baptized in 1728, and, while
recognized as a christian brother, long occupied the position of his
white colleague's carriage and farm servant. Five generations of the
Jones family have worshipped in church edifices erected on the same
site in South Natick, and three generations (a great grandson being

160

Col, John Jones of Dedham.

[April,

a deacon) now statedly worship there within a few rods of the graves
of their ancestor, his two wives, Hannah and Tabitha, and of his two
pastors, Oliver Peabody (1C98-1752 and H. U. 1721) and Stephen
Badger (1725-1803 and H. U. 1747).

Esq. Jones is represented in Mrs. Stowe's work illustrative of
scenes, events and characters of his time and neighborhood, sub-
stantially as follows : — "He was a well formed, well dressed man
who rode in his own carriage, lived in a handsome style, performed
no manual labor, wore a ruffled shirt and was one of the three person-
ages that constituted in Oldtown, Our House of Lords." He is
called by the historians of Watertown and Natick (Bond and Big-
low) a celebrated land surveyor. He surveyed many estates in
Dedham and in neighboring towns for their respective proprietors,
and his professionei services were occasionally required by the
colonial government.

In 1762-3 he surveyed, under a commission issued by the royal
governor of Massachusetts, Mount Desert Island in the District of
Maine, the first draughts of which survey were deposited a few years
since by one of his grandsons in the Archives of the Maine Histori-
cal Society, and some of the implements used on that occasion,
including his chain, compass and tinder box, arc still preserved,
together with such mementoes and family keepsakes as china cups,
saucers and punch bowls, some of which are marked with his initials.
He was one of "the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the
Peace of Suffolk County" under the colonial government and also
under the State.

Pie left at his death a manuscript book entitled "Entrys and
Judgments" that contains, notwithstanding the loss of its first ten
pages, an account of about four hundred cases which he heard and
decided as a Justice of the Peace. Among the last judgments he
pronounced as a colonial magistrate he imposed (July 25, 1774) a
fine of ten pounds on Ephraim Bacon a citizen of Needham for " un-
lawful absence from the public worship of God, Lord's Days, three
months as expressed in a Bill of Indictment filed in y° Court of
Gen. Sessions of y fc peace." He also left a Memorandum Book which
contains some highly prized genealogical statistics, records of mar-
riages solemnized by himself and of dowers and gifts to his children,
together with family and local notes that illustrate the character of
the times in which he lived.

He had ten children — five by his first wife, and five by his second
— four sons and six daughters. The records of all the births, except
the birth of the youngest child, are found in the first \ T olume of the
Dedham Records issued under the supervision of Mr. Don Glen son
Hill, the accomplished town clerk of Dedham. The eldest son,
John (Junior), who was born Feb. 4, 1743-4, settled in Princeton
and, on reaching his majority (1765), he received from his father a
deed of 105 acres in that town, and in March, 1766, he received

1890.1 Col. John Jones of Dedham. 161

from his father a deed of 20 aeres more, and again early in 1775 he
added to his farm 90 acres by purchase from his brother.

This young man, who is called by his appropriate title Copt.
Jones to distinguish him from his father Col. Jones, believed that
the outcome of the difliculties then existing with the mother country
would be war, and he prepared for this war by enlisting in Princeton
and adjoining towns a company of Minute Men, so called, whose
names are enrolled in the Adjutant General's office in the State
House at Boston.* On the 19th of April. 1775, .Capt. Jones set
off from Princeton at the head of his company for Lexington and
Concord, but arrived too late to take part in the skirmishes of that
day. The following letter, w r ritten three days later " in one of y e
colleges" at Cambridge, the original of which now belongs to his
great-grandson, John Howard Jones of Chicago, speaks for itself.
The letter is copied verbatim et literatim. Its orthography and
free use of capital letters remind us of olden times. The hand-
writing is decidedly good, bearing a strong resemblance to that of
Capt. Jones's father. Among other letters preserved is one written
at the same place thirteen days later (May 5). This bears marks
of more care than the other, but it possesses less interest. It is
addressed to his w T ife, and is signed — "From your Loving Husband
John Jones."

Cambridge, April 22, 1775.
Loving Wife.

There was a hot battle fought Between the Regulars that
march'd to Concord and our People on "Wednesday the 19th of this instant
in which many on both sides were slain (but most of the Enemies) as we
heard before we March'd. As we marched to Concord we were often
inform'd that the Enemy had marched from Boston a second time & had
got as far as Lincoln — We hurried on as fast as possible P^xpeeting to
meet them in Concord but when we arrived there we were informed that
they had returned from their first engagement to Charleston — from which
they are gone to Boston — We are now stationed in one of ye colleges as
are many more of ye army — all in good health Through ye Divine good-
ness and hope for ye blessing of Heaven. In ye first Combat among those
that were slain were Lieut. John Bacon of Needham, two Mills's Nat.
Chamb'n and two others from Needham — Elias Haven from Springfield. If
you have an Opportunity you may send Brother Hapgood a shirt and pair
of Stockings — Tis uncertain when w T e shall return may we all be Enuabled
to repent <k turn to our God that he may save us from Ruin.
I am with the Grestest Respect Your

Affectionate & Loving Husband till Death.

John Jones.

N.B. My Best love to

Brother Jones & children — Let us all be Patient & Remember that it is
ye hand of God.

Capt. Moore has sold his flaxseed but if you apply in season you may
get some of Mrs. Wood.

* See LexiDgton Alarm List, vol. xv. p. 48.
vol. XLiy. 14

' 1

162 Col. John Jones of Ded/iam. [April,

The w Brother Hapgood " referred to above was Capt. Jones'.-}
wife's brother ; the " Brother Jones " was his brother Amos Jones
referred to further on. Capt. Jones had at the time of writing this
letter three children, all daughters, and not one five year3 old. The
fourth child, John, was born the following August, while he (the
father) was in active service. "Lieut. John Bacon of Needham,"
whom he reports as slain, was a relative of Ephraim Bacon who was
sentenced by Capt. Jones's father, July 25 the year before, to pay a
fine of ten pounds for absenting himself from the public worship of
God on Lord's Days.

The enterprising and patriotic young man who wrote this letter
was in due time commissioned as Captain in the Continental Army ;
he was at the battle of Bunker's Hill, and for a short time at the
siege of Boston. He went to Quebec with his company in Col.
Doolittle's regiment, and returned as far as Crown Point, N. Y.,
where he died of small-pox, July 4, 1776, leaving a widow and four
children on his farm in Princeton. A record of his service to the
United American States from April 19, 1775, until his death on
the day of the declaration of American Independence, is found in his
father's Memorandum Book referred to above and also in the War
Department at Washington. It is a painful fact that the unques-
tioned service which he rendered to his country and which resulted
in his death at his post of duty, failed to secure a pension for his
widow and children who are so touchingly referred to in his letter
above. Not even his name is found in a work that professes to be
a history of Princeton.

Capt. Jones's nearest descendant at this time is a grandson, and
this grandson is Nathan Watson Jones, who was born April
27, 1803, on the Princeton Jones estate, that consisted in 1775 of
215 acres and belonged successively, in the course of the last cen-
tury, to his great-great-grandfather, his great-grandfather, his grand-
father and his father, all named John Jones. The first two of these
ancestors were born in Weston, the third one in Dedham, and the
fourth in Princeton. This grandson of Capt. Jones is now a citizen
of Griggsville, 111., and worthily represents worthy, respected and
patriotic ancestors, and has sons following his example.

The two military commissions of Capt. Jones, one of which was
as a Captain in the Continental Army and the other as a member of
a local organization (left in the custody of his father, and then of the
latter's youngest daughter), were laid before the United States Senate
. Committee on Pensions well nigh three score years ago, and could
never afterwards be recovered by the family.

Col. Jones's second child and oldest daughter Mehitabei, who was
so named in honor of his mother Mehitabei Garfield, was married
by him June 22, 1768, to Samuel Cook of Needham. His third
child and second daughter Hannah (1748-1834) was married by
him July 4, 1771, to Enoch Brooks of Princeton. Mr. Brooks is

1390. 1 Col. John Jones of Dedham. 163

styled in the Princeton records that contain a notice of his death,
Sept. 18, 1825, Lieutenant. He belonged to the company of
Minute Men commanded by his brother-in-law, Capt. Jones.
"Whether he acquired the above title or rank by service in the
Revolutionary Army is not known to the writer.

Col. Jones's son Amos, after whom the writer of this sketch was
named, settled in Princeton near his brother Capt. John, and
received from his father, April 3, 1775, a deed of 125 acres of land
in that town, 90 acres of which he soon sold to his brother Capt.
John, and after his death the other 35 acres reverted to his father. He
taught school in Hutchinson, now the town of Barre, in the* winter
of 1774—75. He trained in his brother John's military company,
but was kept from active service by impaired health that resulted in
his death, in Lebanon, Me., Nov. 19, 1776. A brief diary or note
book, containing specimens of his penmanship, some rude rhymes
and arithmetical tables, is the only memento that has been handed
down to his surviving nephew. Another nephew and namesake
of Amos Jones, viz. Amos Jones Cook, son of Samuel and Mehit-
abel (Jones) Cook, referred to above, succeeded Daniel Webster as
the preceptor of the Fryeburg, Me., academy, at the time of his
graduation at Dartmouth College in 1802, and he held that position
with marked honor more than thirty years.

After Col. Jones's death in 1801, his papers came under the
immediate care of his youngest son Adam (1760-1825), who on the
sale of his father's homestead in 1804, and his removal soon after-
wards to Templeton, where he lived and died, took away with him a
trunk full of these papers which were preserved till about a quarter
of a century ago, when they were burnt to get them out of the way.
* The other papers, including printed documents, were crowded into

barrels and boxes and stored for sixty years in the attic of the
youngest of Col. Jones's ten children, Mary, who after her marriage

fby her father in 1795 to Elijah Perry of Natick, always resided near
her paternal homestead. Such printed documents as were not
picked away piecemeal are now in the Morse Institute Library in
Natick. Some of the numerous manuscripts, including civil and
military commissions, were lost in the fire that consumed, March 2,
1872, the collections of the South Natick Historical Society. Some
plats of farms surveyed in neighboring towns were deposited in town
clerk offices, where it was thought they might some time be of interest ;
some papers were burnt, and a few that are highly prized are in the
hands of Mr. Jones's only surviving grandson.

The saying (unendorsed by the writer) has been handed down
that Mr. Jones received favors under the colonial government on
account of certain relations (referred to further on) to men in power.
Accepting office under the English colonial government and bound
by oath to serve it faithfully, he was loyal and dutiful, while all the
members of his family (of mature years), including sons, daughters

164 OoL John Jones of Dedham. fApril,

and sons-in-law, were active in overturning that government and in
establishing another in its place more in harmony with their ideas of
popular rights. His efforts to enforce certain laws relating to the
public worship of God on Lord's Days caused much disaffection and
hastened the conflict in his neighborhood between the new and the
old government — between the patriots and the loyalists.

In the autumn of 1774 (probably in the latter part of Sept.), a
scene of historic interest was enacted under an elm tree that stood
near Col. Jones's mansion, and that now, with other trees near by,
towers high and spreads out its branches as if to take a better view
of a surpassingly beautiful landscape far and near on either side.
A numerous company appeared there with a request signed by ft Sons
of Liberty," that the magistrate of King George vacate his office.
The time-honored, though then unpopular, functionary was not in a
condition to decline compliance with this pressing invitation. In
view of many circumstances and pertinent facts, it is believed that,
though he mijjht not have been in a state of mind to welcome the
bold and decisive act that enabled him to throw off official responsi-
bility without dishonor, he never regretted the result of the occurence.
His whole subsequent life indicates this view of the case, lie did
not leave his home, as one writer has intimated. His family, to
which he was ever devoted, required his presence there. Besides, he
was habitually so open and manly in his dealings with his fellow
men that he had no need then or afterwards of concealment. He
had at that time two sons and two son-in-laws abroad — three in
Princeton and one in Needham, all aggressive patriots and all
devotedly attached to him as a man and as a relative ; but hostile to
him as a colonial official. He had at home Ins wife Tabitha and her
five children, whose names and ages were as follows :— Mary, an
infant a month old ; Caroline, ten years old ; Adam, fourteen years ;
Silence sixteen, and Tabitha nineteen years. This last-named
daughter witnessed with interest the scene, and gave late in life an
oral account of it that has been transmitted to the present time.
Her father's relation to the two political parties of that time was, and
has been, until a recent period, a subject of so delicate a nature as to
be referred to, if at all, among friends and neighbors, only in a very
guarded way, to avoid giving offence or wounding feelings. This is
probably the reason why we have no full statement as to who signed
the request that was made ; who all the visitors were ; how the
business was transacted, and whether in resigning his colonial office
Esq. Jones then and there acknowledged his allegiance to the upris-
ing government that was aided by his family. We know but little
of this affair aside from tradition and the statement furnished by the
above-named witness a half century after the occurrence.

Some citizens were present, we are told, whom the magistrate had
ofFended by imposing upon them penalties for the violation of colonial
laws, and some were there because they disliked the antiquated

1890.] r Col. John Jones of Dedham. 1G5

colonial government which Esq. Jones seemed from his position to
impersonate and represent. Some were there, too, who, possessing
a friendly and generous spirit, wished to protect from insult and
injury a man whom they respected despite his loyalty to King George.
Among the latter class was Ephraim Dana (1744-1792), a black-
smith by trade and a citizen of Natick, whose house and shop were
scarcely an eighth of a mile distant on the opposite side of Charles
river. In less than six years thereafter this Ephraim Dana was at
the Jones mansion again under very different circumstances. On
the latter occasion (April 20, 1780) having lost his wife Rebecca
"(Leland) Dana and acquired the title of lieutenant in the service of
his country, he came to marry the magistrate's daughter Tabitha
above referred to ; and now after the lapse of more than a hundred
years the manly and patriotic Ephraim and his wife Tabitha (Jones)
Dana have many worthy and highly respected descendants residing
in that neighborhood, in Boston and in different parts of the
country.

The business laid out was transacted, we have reason to believe,
with as much regard to decorum and order as could be expected on
an occasion of such excitement and zeal as must have there prevailed.
The magistrate lost his office without, however, losing his self-respect
or his honor as a man. We now see that the movement thus
begun exerted an influence that was far reaching. The political
future of that neighborhood and of that region was settled. Esq. Jones
ceased to be colonial magistrate. Public and private records however
show that he continued to be a man of consideration. His character
stood the test to which it was subjected ; for in less than five years
(Aug. 28, 1779) he represented the town of Dedham in a petition
and remonstrance to the General Court (see Acts and Kesolvcs Pro-
vince of Mass. Bay, Vol. V. p. 1343), and in a little more than
eleven years, in response to a numerously signed memorial from
fellow citizens, he was commissioned by the Governor of Massachu-
setts to again be " one of the Justices of the Court of General Sessions
of the Peace of Suffolk County ; " and he made about as many
decisions under the new government as under the old. lie recorded
in his "Book of Entrys " the first judgment he rendered under the
State government (Feb. 6, 1780) on the lower half, of the page that
contains a record of the last case he tried (Sept. 5, 1774) under the
colonial government. His hand-writing was not changed during
the intervening time. The same regard for even-handed justice
. appears in both series of judicial acts, the only difference being the
7 absence of any reference to His Majesty King George either in his

commission or in his record of judgments rendered.

This man, a brief sketch of whose life is given above, though not

enumerated by the historian Sabine as a loyalist, passed into local

history as a tory, an epithet which if not the most damaging and

damning that belongs to the vocabulary of the Revolutionary period,

vol. xliv. 14*

166 Col. John Jones of Dedham. [April,

is far from being complimentary, in illustration of which statement
the following personal incident is related. A boy ten or twelve
years old who had seen much of Esq. Jones's papers and household
furniture and had always lived in sight of his mansion, once asked
an elderly gentleman who had been a neighbor of the magistrate
many years to tell him about that man. The prompt reply was : —
"Don't ask about him, he was a tory." To the boy's further
inquiry : "Was he not a good man? He was a deacon," the reply
was given with bated breath as if the speaker were trying to conceal
emotions of horror : "Yes, but he was a tory." The idea of some
mysterious and awful creature, such as might have belonged to the
witchcraft period of our history, was thus conveyed to the boy, and
not till many years afterwards could he get at the truth.

Now it appears, that though thus stigmatized and scandalized,
Esq. Jones was a man of integrity and moral worth. Neither time-
serving nor dissimulation was ever laid to his charge. His word
was as good as his bond. Only a painful necessity could induce him
to abandon the old ship of state and take refuge on a craft whose
merits he little understood. In both of these positions, he performed
the duties which he understood devolved upon him.

Slow to learn and slow to adopt advanced ideas of American
citizenship and manhood, he yet attained true dignity. Heeding the
monitions of his conscience, he exemplified noble virtues and did his
part, wdien the occasion was offered, to render the State government
a worthy successor of the colonial. He raised up a family whose
members were without exception imbued with the principles of lib-
erty (one of them dying in the service of his country), and who not
only showed respect for his character while he was living, but those
who survived him strove to perpetuate his memory by having
inscribed upon his grave stone (still standing in the old churchyard)
the distich of Pope, the second line of which is —

" An honest man's the noblest work of God,",

an epitaph whose appropriateness in this case was readily con-
ceded by all who knew the man and the straits through which he
passed.

Col. Jones's father was John, who was the fifth son of Capt.
Josiah and a carpenter by trade. He was born March 19, 16$6— 7,
in that part of Watertown which became the town of Weston, where
his will was dated Feb. 11, 1763, and lodged June 4, 1774. He
married Dec. 8, 1715, Mehitabel Garfield, who sustained a recognized
relation to deputy Governor Thomas Dan forth and Governor Jona-
than Belcher. He became a large proprietor of real estate, giving
to his son John of Dedham 320 acres in Princeton ; to his son Ezra
320 acres in Rutland district (Barre) ; to his son Benjamin 240
acres in Oakham, and to his son Abraham his home estate in Weston.
He had six sons and three daughters. John of Dedham was the

1890.] Col. John Jones of Dedham. 167

oldest of the children. Ezra became an opulent farmer in Bane;
Benjamin and Abraham resided in Weston : none of the other chil-
dren had families, and two of them died in 1748.

Col. Jones's grandfather was Josiah, born in 1643, in Eoxbury,
where his parents resided at that time.' He died in Weston, Oct. 9,
1714; married Oct. 2, 1667, Lydia Tread way of Charlestown, who
died Sept. 18, 1743, aged about 94 years. He was admitted a
freeman in Watertown, April 18, 1690 ; was a captain in the militia ;
a selectman of Watertown 1685, SQ, 87, 90, 1702 and 1709 ; was
an original member of the church in Weston, and one of its first
deacons, to which position he was elected Jan. 4. 1709-10. He
had six sons and four daughters, all of whom had families, and some
reached a very advanced age. The eldest son Josiah had four sons
and a daughter ; the 2d son Nathaniel had seven sons and four
daughters ; the 3d son James had five sons and six daughters ;
the 4th son Samuel had two sons ; the 5th son John had six
sons and three daughters, and the 6th son Isaac had seventeen
children.

The record of Capt. Josiah's grandchildren and great-grandchildren
contains numerous facts of interest. A good number of his descen-
dants were graduates of Mew England colleges, and some of thein
were benefactors. Elisha, the 4th son of Capt. Josiah's eldest son
Josiah, died Feb. 15, 1775, in his 66th year, having been a Colonel,
a magistrate and a member of the General Court. He had, by his
wife Mary Allan who survived him, fourteen sons and a daughter,
and twelve of his fourteen sons had families.

The father of Capt. Josiah was Lewis, who came to this country
about 1640. He came, it is said, from England, though his sur-
name is of Welsh origin, and the reddish or sandy hair and clear
complexion of many of his descendants indicate Welsh extraction.
He settled in Koxbury, where he and his wife Anna were members
of John Eliot's church. He removed to Watertown in 1650, where
he had various commercial transactions, including the purchase and
sale of real estate. He made his will Jan. 7, 1678-9, and he died
April 11, 1684, leaving four children, two sons and two daughters.
His daughter Lydia married, Oct. 30, 1656, Jonathan Whitney,
and his son Josiah was the executor of his will and was one of the
pioneer settlers of that part of Watertown that subsequently became
the town of Weston.

Having before us this commemorative sketch of John Jones of
Dedham, of his father John of Weston, his grandfather Capt. Josiah
and his great-grandfather Lewis, the immigrant, together with
references to some noteworthy members of their respective. families,
it is interesting to observe, in conclusion, that these men all attained
a good age and left evidence of having led honorable and useful
lives.

168 Mary Watkins, , [April,

MARY W ATKINS ; A DISCOLORED HISTORY OF WITCH-
CRAFT, CLEANSED BY MODERN RESEARCH.

By Walteu K. Watkins, Esq., of Chelsea, Mass.

THAT voluminous and indefatigable historian, Samuel G. Drake,
in his " History and Antiquities of Boston," page 503, speak-
ing of the last Court held on the witchcraft at Boston, says, "It was
at this Court that the aged Captain Alden ? was acquitted by proclama-
tion,' but 'Mary Watkins, who had been a servant, and lived about
seven miles from the Town,' was tried and condemned, though not
by the jury, their repeated verdict being, r Ignoramus' ; but the Court
imprisoned her for some time, and she was finally sold into bondage
in Virginia."

Another account of the same case is found in a small volume the
opposite extreme in size, though by an able writer. In 1839 there
was published in Boston, "Historical Letters on the First Charter,"
by Abel Gushing. On page 190 can be found this extract : —

A female slave by the name of Mary Watkins was brought before this
court at this session, upon charge of making false and scandalous reports
against her dame, a Mrs. Swift; which were, that she, said Swift, was a
witch and had murdered a child. But, upon examination, the negresS
acknowledged her charges were false ; and she was thereupon ordered to
find sureties for her appearance at the next court in Hoston, and to stand
committed until compliance with the order. Candy had much more en-
couragement than this, when she brought her mistress to confession of
witchcraft by her accusations. But the poor slave could not find the
required sureties, and was thereupon kept in close prison. In despair, and
to end her miseries, she attempted suicide, but without success. She then
accused herself of witchcraft, hoping they would hang her; but at the
court the grand jury would not indict her upon her own confession : and she
was at last sold at Virginia to pay her prison fees. And this is the nearest
approach to a witch trial which could be got up in Boston, since the times
of the widow Hibbins. l

Without comment at present we will refer to a contemporary of our
heroine, namely Robert Calef. In Part 5 of his "More Wonders of
the Invisible World," page 142 of the original edition, he mentions

the case in these words : — \

*
April 25, 1G93. The first superior court was held at Boston for the
county of Suffolk; the judges were the lieutenant Governor, mr. Danforth,
mr. Richards, and mr. Sewall, esquires; where (besides the acquiting mr.
John Aldin by proclamation) the most remarkable was, what related to
Mary Watkins, who had been a servant, and lived about seven miles from

1890.] Mary Watkins. 169

Boston, having formerly accused her mistress of witchcraft, and was sup-
posed to be distracted; she was threatened, if she persisted in such accusa-
tion, to be punished. This, with necessary care to recover her health had
that good effect, that site not only had her health restored, but also wholly
acquitted her mistress of any such crimes, and continued in health till the
return of the year, and then again failing into melancholy humours, she
was found strangling herself; her life being hereby prolonged she immedi-
ately accused herself of being a witch:; was carried before a magistrate, and
committed. At this court a bill of indictment was brought to the grand
jury against her, and her confession upon her examination given in as
evidence; but these, not wholly satisfied herewith, sent for her, who gave
such account of herself, that they (after they had returned into the court
to ask some question) twelve of them agreed to find Ignoramus,* but the
court was pleased to send them out again, who again at coming in returned
it as before. ' She was continued for some time in prison, &c, and at length
was sold to Virginia. About this time the prisoners in all the prisons were
released.

Having referred to the printed accounts of this case, we will ex-
amine what original manuscript there is now accessible, to see if
further information can be obtained. Referring to the files of tiie
Superior Court of Judicature for Suffolk County, we find the follow-
ing document : —

Mary Watkins Single woman being accused of false and scandalous re-
ports she had made and forged against her dame Swift of

as that she was a witch and had murthered a child. The said Mary
Watkins being brought to the barr upon the examination acknowledged
they were false reports and that she had wronged her the said Swift.
Whereupon the court ordered the said Watkins to find sureties for her
good behavior and her appearance at the next court of assizes and General
Goal delivery holden for the County of Suffolk and stand committed until
the same be performed.

This corroborates some facts in the printed accounts, but leaves
many unsupported ; unfortunately many papers in the Suffolk Court
files have been purloined or destroyed, and among them were doubt-
less others that would have thrown light on the case.

There is in existence, however, a document in the Mass. Ar-
chives that furnishes a clew and identifies the person without doubt,
and puts a different aspect on the case, and a different complexion
upon the subject. It is a petition of Mary Watkins and Susanna
Davis, and is found in Vol. 105, p. — .

Wee Mary Watkins of Unkatie spinster and Susanna Davis of Newbury
spinster being prisoner in their inaj'te Goal in Boston in New England doe
humbly supplicate Mr. Caleb Kay Keeper of the said Goal to provide
master or masters to carry us out of this country into Virginia, our friends,

* The verdict " Ignoramus*' is a legal term, which is defined in Bailey's Dictionary,
in an edirion dated 1730, as follows: — "Ignoramus (i.e. we know not) a Term used by
the grand Jury, which they write on the Hill of Information for the Inquisition of Crimi-
nal Causes, when they dislike the Evidence as defective, or too weak to make good a pre-
sentment, and then ail further Enquiry upon the Party is stopp'd."

170 Mary Watkins* [April,

relations, and kindred, slighting us to extremity. In testimony whereof we
have hereunto sett our hands and seals this 11th day of August A.D.
1693.

Mary — 1 — Watkins
Susanna — q — Davis

|
In neither of these documents is the object of our search spoken of
as a negress or person of color, as in Cushmg's account, but simply
a servant. That she was sold into servitude is probable, though no
record of the fact other than her desire and Calef s account exists.
The clew to her identity is in the name Unquety, a contraction used
for the Indian name Uncataguisset, now the town of Milton, fr about
seven miles from Boston." In Milton dwelt one Richard Hixson,
whose wife's 'maiden name was Margaret Watkins, with them dwell-
ing her sister Mary Watkins. This we know from the administration
of one Thomas Watkins's estate found in the Probate of Suffolk
County as follows : —

July 15 1690. by the Hon. Simon Bradstreet esquire Governor, Samuel
Sewall assistant, power of administration to all and singular debts, credits,
goods and estates of Thomas Watkins, late of Boston, cordwainer, was
granted to Richard Hixson of Milton, in right of his wife, sister of Thomas
Watkins and of Mary Watkins, another sister, he giving bonds as adminis-
trator according to law. Attest I. Addington.

Thomas, Margaret and Mary were the children of Thomas Wat-
kins, a planter at Merrymeeting Bay, by his wife Margaret, who,
'on his death about 1673, married Thomas Stevens. We glean this
relationship from the following extract taken from the book of East-
ern Land Claims in the Mass. Archives : —

As per a deed of sale and on ye hand & seal of Richard Hixson, Mar-
garet Hixson and Mary Watkins dated May 27 A.D. 1G92 Sold by John

Gutch to Thomas Watkins Senr. of Kennebeck, as per deed under his hand

& seal dated Dec. 18 1G66 &c The parcel sold by ye Indiann Deunkin

Daniel & Robin Hood to Margaret Stephens formerly wife of sd Watkins
& the Heirs of sd. Watkins dated Aug. 1672 &c. &c.

That Thomas and his wife and children were all white there is no
doubt, as he was a freeman and of some prominence, though Savage
has erred in putting three men into one. Thomas the planter died
in 1673, as shown, and Thomas, cordwainer, died in 1690, while a
third Thomas, tobacconist, had nine children, as shown in Boston
records, some of which survived him ; no children being mentioned
as of Thomas, cordwainer. Therefore there must have been three
instead of one as mentioned by Savage.

Thus we have shown Mary in her true colors, and the Thomases,
like those of the Bible, have received their proper title.

1890.] Ethan Allen's Language at Ticonderoga. 171

ETHAN ALLEN'S LANGUAGE AT TICONDEROGA.

Communicated by William C. Todd, A.M., of Atkinson, N. H.

IN an article on Timothy Dexter contributed to the Register for
October, 1886, was the following : — "According to all his- .
tories of the United States, Ethan Allen demanded the surrender
of Ticonderoga from the British commander ? In the name of the
Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.'" Prof. James D.
Butler, of Madison, Wisconsin, has informed me that his grand-
father Israel Harris was present, and had often told him that Ethan
Allen's real language was, " Come out of here, you d — d old rat." . j

The inference of the writer naturally was, that a man who used
one expression would not have used the other. A very intelligent
Vermont gentleman, Mr. George W. Harmon, however, has pub-
lished an article claiming that Allen used both the forcible words
put into his mouth by Mr. Harris and the language of history.
Taking the account given in the " Capture of Ticonderoga " by Hon.
Lucius E. Chittenden, an eminent son of Vermont, he has intro-
duced the Harris language, making it read thus : —

" A guard thrusts at an officer of the invading force with his bayonet,
and slightly wounds him. Allen strikes up the weapon, and deals a blow
at the assailant's head. His life is saved by a comb which turns the force
of the blow ; he drops his gun and asks for quarter. * Where is the officer
in command?' thunders Allen. He is shown to a room on the second floor
of the officer's quarters; he summons Capt. Delaplace to come forth, saying,
4 Gome out of here, you d — d old rat, ? or he will sacrifice the garrison.
Aroused from his sleep, half naked and half stupefied, he appears, and in
reply to Allen's demand for immediate surrender, asks: ' By what author-
ity?' 'In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress,'
is the answer. "

This account is taken from that of Allen himself, in his "Narrative,"
bearing date "Bennington, March 25, 1779." If Allen used both
expressions the interpolation is probably correct. After the lapse
of over a century, it is not easy to establish any fact by new original
evidence. Of the 83 in the company, but very few could have fol-
lowed Allen to the door of the chamber, on the second story, and
heard his demand for surrender. It was before the day of the " inter-
viewer," and the published records of all events at that period were
few and brief. That one expression was used depends on the testi-
mony of Mr. Harris, whose word seems never to have been ques-
tioned. Hon. Peter Butler has recently told me that he never knew
a man whose statement of an occurrence just as it was could be more
depended upon. Prof. Butler has written to me that every living
grandson of Mr. Harris has heard him declare that Allen used the
words, and one, now deceased, had heard him deny that Allen used
the language of history.

172 Letters of Actors in the Revolutionary War* [April,

The words of history depend, as far as I can learn, on the evi-
dence of Allen himself. He was a brave, patriotic, impulsive, un-
cultivated man, skeptical but familiar with the bible, from which lie
often quoted, and the words " Great Johovah " may have occurred
to him. There had been no "Continental Congress" since the
preceding October, but it was to assemble that very day in Phila-
~ delphia, and that may have come to his mind. But it was a re-
markable expression, and some, with all that is stated above on
which to form a judgment, and with no wish to question Allen's
veracity, may think, in the excitement of the moment, for the
capture was over in ten minutes, he may have forgotten his real
language, and imagined he said what was the best thing he could
have said. It is well known that the statements of generals are not
always to be depended upon, especially where they are personally
interested, of which we had many illustrations in our late war,
Take the recent instance, shall we believe Gen. Butler or Admiral
Porter in their statements about events at New Orleans, conceding
that both mean to be truthful ?

Is it probable that Allen could have used two expressions so
different? If he used the Harris language alone, or with the other
demand, would he have made it a part of his published narrative?
If he really used the words given by Mr. Harris, should the faithful
historian repeat them, or suppress them? A distinguished author
once said to the writer that it was not risxht " to turn a man out into
the world naked — he should be dressed up." Is this the true way
to write history, or is it not? |

The reader must answer for himself these questions, and decide
whether Allen used one or both expressions, and if only one, which. ,

Doubt has recently been thrown on many long accepted historical
statements, and among the interesting papers of the late Charles W.
Tuttle, just published, is one questioning, with much reason, the
accuracy of the "Report of an Indian Massacre at Fox Point,
May, 1690," narrated by Cotton Mather in his Magnalia.

LETTERS OF ACTORS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

Communicated by John S. H. Fogg, M.D., of Boston, Mass.

I. Charles Lee to the Parish of New Cheshire.

New Haven January y e 17. 1776.
Gentlemen,

I am extremely happy and very much flattered with your Zeal and
alacrity in the Cause of your Country, and readiness in putting yourselves
under my Command. As to the choice of your Officers it is left to your
discretion. I hope and dare say you will make a proper choice. You will

1890.] Letters of Actors in the Revolutionary War. 173

oblige me in marching on Friday or Saturday morning for Fairfield, the
place of our general Rendezvous, when I will arrange you into Battalions
in a manner the most simple, and according to my idea, the best calculated
for real service.

I am, Gentlemen,
To the parish of New Cheshire. Your most obedient Servant,

Charles Lee,

Major General.
Superscribed :

To | the Gentlemen of the Parish | of | New Cheshire.
From | Gen 1 Lee.

II. Henry Knox to Henry Jackson. * ,.._■..

24 miles from Peekskill • Camp, Ranepaugh, N. Jersey,

j ' 19 July, 1777.

Dear Henry,

I received your agreeable Letter pr: the post, — be assured my
good friend that every thing is done by his Excellenc}^ to obtain intelli-
gence that is possible, and that there is no occasion to repine on that head :
perhaps it is impossible to know the enemys General's secret intentions,
but you gather as much from consequences and preparations as the secret
intentions, provided the measures are compared and duly weighed by
persons of judgement. The fear you discover on this head betrays a want
of confidence which is not warranted by anything that has past — pray what
advantages or precautions could have been taken by his Excellency that
were not taken even suppose we thought the enemy were not going to
Philadelphia. For my part I know of none — not the shadow of one — but
my dear Harry don't suffer such sentiments to possess your mind — they
are the sentiments of a caviling committee man.

The enemy have not yet discovered their future Operations by any pre-
paratory steps — the fleet lays at Staten Island every thing aboard and from
the provisions and stores they have taken in they may be going to Phila-
delphia, N. England, or the North River, from the circumstances either
may be argued with propriety.

But from the Consideration of the importance of the object, the certainty
of Reinforcements, my opinion is they will push either up the North or
East River which may ensure the same end of manoeuvring us out of the
highlands — not that I think the matter easy? on the Contrary if we get our
whole force to oppose their whole force I think the event impracticable.

N. England must exert herself to Crush Burgovne; if she does not
Desolation and Destruction are the Consequences, the post is just going so
that I am, Your most affectionate friend,

Superscribed : H. Knox.

" Colonel Henry Jackson | Boston."

III. John Sullivan to John Laurens.

Head Quarters 13 August, 1778.
My Dear Sir,

To Struggle against a Series of Misfortunes, to Combat with all
the Elements and at the same time to project the most Hazardous Enter-
prises, while it commands the acknowledgement of all, it excites my adinira-

VOL. XLV. ' 15

174 Letters of Actors in the Revolutionary War, [April,

IV. Artemas Ward to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety.

Head Quarters June 14, 1775.
Gent 11 .

I should be glad that a quantity of Cartridges might be immediately
sent to the Park at Richardsous as there is a great demand for them, &
Six Casks of loose Powder to Maj: Barber (if not already delivered) to be
kept in the store at Cambridge.

I am Gent : Your humble Servt :
To the Gentlemen of the Committee \ of) • Artemas Ward.

Safety in \ Watertown. )

V. Friedrich Adolph Riedesel to Tltomas Jefferson.

Cotte 19 June 1779.

Sir,

The happiness I have had in becoming acquainted with you, and
the many kindnesses I received of you during your short residence at
Montichelli, induces me to present you these lines, and ray most perfect
congratulations on your new Charge as Governor of Virginia, as much
Pleasure as it is possible for this event to give you. Such on your account
I feel on the occasion, having only to struggle against the great dissatisfac-
tion of being deprived for the future of your pleasing Society, which
formerly rendered our abode at Cotte so much more agreeable : Madame
de Riedesel joins her congratulations to mine and sends her best Compli-
ments and respects to Your Lady, but cannot help lamenting the loss of
Her good Friend Mrs. Jeiferson when she sees Montichelli.

Captain Barlling will send your Excellency this Letter. He is sent
down to Richmond by me, to take charge of the Transport of the remainder
of the Baggage in that Place belonging to the German Troops under the
Convention of Saratoga. I particularly recommend him to your Excel lencys
protection, being persuaded you will give him every necessary assistance
to accomplish his Commission.

I have the Honor to be, with the most perfect respect,

Your Excellencys most obedient humble Servant,

Ilis Excellency Governor Jefferson. Riedesel, Major General.

tion & Demands my most Cordial thanks. The scheme you propose would
be ven T advantageous and might doubtless be Crowned with Success could
you be reiuforced with a Body of Men to Support you: but my Dear Sir, "

Though my Numbers are great my Situation is miserable, my men mostly
without Covering, their Arms rendered useless & Ammunition Destroyed.
Their Healths and Spirits much Sunk & impaired by their present jj

Situation. The Communication with the main Rendered impracticable by -

the violence of the wind & of Course no Rum or provisions can be obtained ■

for them. — Under these Circumstances You cannot be properly supported &
should you foil in the attempt the Troops will Loose all Spirit ami a Re- ,

treat will be inevitable — I therefore think that we must wait till the Raging
Elements are Lulled to Sleep before we take any measures but for our own
Security. The moment the weather abates I will send over the Reinforce-
ments ordered yesterday — at present they would Ruin their Arms in Coming.
I' am with much Esteem my Dear Sir
Your most obed' Servant,
Lt: Col: Laurens. Jn° Sullivan.

LETTERS OF COL. THOMAS WESTBROOK
AND OTHERS,

RELATIVE TO INDIAN AFFAIRS IN MAINE.
Communicated by William Blake Trash, A.M., of Dorchester.
[Continued from page 32.]

Journal.

N: Yarmouth, may 6 th 1723.

WROTE orders to Cap tn Wheelwright att Arrowsik to Come neither
with what men he had with him of his Company, in Order to pro-
ceed to Wells, thear to Joyn and take under his Care and Comand U Molton
with y e party of men that are thear with him in a Scout, from thence to
Berwick &c.

This Day Ordered Cap ta Sandars, now att arrowsik, to Sail directly for
S Georges, and chare take in y e province arms that are with y e armorer

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others. 175

VI. Charles Scott to William Davis.

Cum d . Old Courthouse
Dear Col . October 28, 1782.

Your favour of the 25 Instant Respecting the Removal of the troops
to Winchester & my ordering the Recruiting Officers to that place with their
men I rec d yesterday. I have to ask the favour of } r ou to inform Govern-
ment that it will Be impossible for me to give the Notice Requited to the
Recruiting officers without Sending Express to every individual, the want
of money puts that also out of my power. I would therefore think it
advisable that the Executive Publish it in the papers for two or three
weeks — in the meantime I will Watch every possible opportunity to give
them information — I wish You to inform His Excellency the Governor that
the Officers appointed to Recruit in this & the County of Cumberland has
made use of all the money they drew from the County Lieut 8 and that the
men from the So. Army whose times are Expired is now within four days
march of this place. Many of them may be Reenlisted if money Could be
had. I would therefore wish his Excellency to Give orders in favor of me
on the officers appointed to Recruit in Chesterfield, Goochland, Amelia &
Alberniarle or any other officer who has not Been successful for a part of
the money in their hands that I may throw it in the hands of those at this
post or else where as occasion May Require — I am Extremiy Anxious
about this matter, the men will shurly be Clear in four or five Days
without an Accident, pray speak to His Exc y feelingly on this Subject that
this or some other method be adopted to reeulist the men. they are worth
our attention. ]

I am Dear Col°,
Col . Davis. Your ob* Servant,

Superscribed : Col . William Davis | Ch" Scott.

Richmond | On public Service.

176 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others, [April,

mended and fit for Servis and "Return back to Georgtown and Deliver them
to M r Edmond* Mountfort, taking his Receipt

Wrote Cap tn Carlile, Adviseing him that I had rece'd from his Hon r y e
Lu* Gov 1 " a Commission for him as Cap tn of Cap tn Temples Company, which
I should Deliver him on my Arival, in a few Days.

Order d him, that on Cap 1 Penhallows Return from his Scout, that he take
y e Care and Charg of that party of men and Proceed on a Scout according
to my former Instructions to him.

Jeremiah Prickman, of my Company, being Sick with Convultion £tt3
and uncapable of Servis Is Discharg d .

Wrote M r Edmund Mountfort, by Jacob Parker, who Came with pubiick
Stores, Advised him that I had taken Oute som Quantety of Provitions for
winter harbo r &c.

Jacob Parker Dispatched; in the Eveing sail'd for falmoth, whear we
ariv'd next Day, aboute Eleven a Clock.

May 7 th att Falmoth. I Proceeded Imediatly to view and Enquier into
y e State of y e Several Garrisons in y e Town, and Ordered Cap tn Shi ply to
Post men att Each of them Respectively, as there was Ocation, for y e
Securyty of y e Inhabitants.

May 8 th Sail'd for winter Harbor (Cap tn Slocomb being left a shore sik),
whear we ariv'd in the afternoon. Suply'd Cap 1 Ward with Provitions and
Other Stores as he had Ocation for his Company.

L* Dominicus Jourdan being hear, Suply'd him with 76 Days Provitions
for 5 men posted att his Garrison att Spnrwink.

The 9 th Instant, Suply'd Richard Srimpsou with provitions for 5 men,
Posted att his Garrison, for 7G Days.

This morning, before Day, Sam 11 Newton, one of Cap* Ward 5 Company,
Going aboard the Sloop in a Gundiio, fell over board and was Drounded.

I Proceeded to vissit y e Several Garrisons in the Town, being accom-
pany'd with y e principal part of y e Inhabitants, with whom I Consulted y e
Properest methods to be taken for y e Securyty of the Inhabitants, Returning
thr° y e woods to m r Sam 11 Jourdans. On my Return, Gave Cap 1 Ward The
following Orders, to post men att Several Garrisons, as Follows —

Viz f M r Hiles 3

M r Stagpoles 4

Cap* Ward,
t S r Yow are hearby directed to see that

Att^J M r Tarbox 4. > 17 men the several men mentioned in the Mar-
M r Dyers o gin be posted at y e Respective Garrisons

Capt Sharp's 3 J hearin Named, Giveing them Orders and

Directions that thay Obay the Comands of y e masters of ye Respective
Garrisons wherin thay are posted, in doing thear Duty of watching and

* Mr. Edmund Mountfort, incorrectly given as Edward in the Register, ante, page 25,
wa3 probablv son of Edmund, of Boston, tailor, who by wife Elisabeth had Edmund, born
July 11, 1664.

At the close of the Denny note, page 30, for Mass. Arch. 57. read 51.

t John Stackpole, in a petition, dared Boston, November, 1727, states, that on the 22d of
January, 1724-5, he did "by order of Col Thomas Westbrook, take the Command of
Twenty-one men at Biddeford and rnarcht up Saeo River in pursuit of the Enemy, which
Continued for nine days, & soon after his rerurn, on the tirst day of february following ? r
Pet r did by order of said Col° Westbrook march as Pilot from Richmond to Penobscot
Town with Capt Joseph Heath, all which may sufficiently appear by a Journall* now in the
Secretarys oilice, signed by Col Westbrook, and for which service your Peti r has never
ree'd any pay."

He therefore prays for an allowance.

It was ordered that the sum of Eight Pounds be paid said Stackpole out of the Pubiick
Treasury. Mass. Arch. 72 : 302.

* There is a later Journal of John Stackpole, dated 1755, in the Mass. Arch. 3SA pp. 170, 171.

1890,] Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others . 177

warding, untill further Orders, and not to absent themselves att any time
withoute Liberty.

And as to the Remaining part of Yo r Company, Yow are to Improve
them in the best maner Yow Can for Security of y e Inhabitants, untill yow
Shall Receive further Orders.

Given Und r my hand, att Bideford, this 9 th of May 1723. T. W.

The 10 th Current.

Posted 4 men at Jn° Browns Garrison, at Saco falls, Suply'd him with
provitions and Amunition.

The 11 th two men of Cap 4 Ward 8 Company, Viz. Bryant Moulton, of Capo
Codd, and Sollomon Babysuck an Indian of Sherburn being Deserted from
the Servis

Wrote advertisements and sent forward by Corpor 11 Murfy, Ordering
him that In Case he should not overtake or hear of them to Proceed as far
as Boston, and wait on his IIon r y e L* Govern r with an Advertisement
takeing his Orders for his Return to his post.

Saboth Day may 12: this Proved Verry Stormy, the Revrend M r
Eveleth* Preeched two Sermons att y e forte.

13 tu Current, wrote to y c Comishon Officers and Select: men of y e town,
Desiering them to meet me att Lu* Jordans, this Day, in Order to Consult
aboute som things of Consequence Refering to y e afairs of y e town.

Bideford May 13 th The Cominisshon officers and Select men met me
according to my Desire, with whom I Confer'd aboute the afairs of the
town and Garrisons according to y e Act of y e General Court, that I might
Know the better how to Cover y e Inhabitants; thay answered me, that thay
had not proceeded thearin according to s d Act.

May 14 th I Went in a whale boat to Black point and Spurwink, Vissiting
y e Garrisons there, to know y° Conditions thearof. Posted 4 men at W ra
Mitchels Garrison, and made up 5 men att L* Dominico 8 Jourdans Garrison,
leveing orders with them to Keep a Strict watch aud ward, and the men to
obay thear Orders, and not absent themselves att any time withoutt thear
liberty. The 15 th , proceeded to Casco, in a whale boat.

The 16 th , Slocomb 9 Sloop Came in from Bideford.

Falmouth, May 16 th 1723.

Dismissed from y e Servis Several men that ware Sick, lame and unfit for
Servis, by thear own Requests. Viz 1 Petter Richardson, Jacob Petterattock,
Jn° Mullens, and Jn° Young, all of Cap 4 Shiplys Company, and furlow'd
Jn° Church, of D° Company.

Dismist Eliazer Collins of Cap* Barkers Company, and gave a furlo to
benjeman Stimpson of Cap 1 Peter' Company, he having hired Jn° Ozburu
to Stay in his Room.

* Kev. John Eveleth, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1689, settled in Stow,
Mass., in the year 1700; the first pastor of the Church in that town. He was dismissed in
1717. In 1719 he became minister of the Church in Arundel, now Kennebunkport, Me.
The town voted him £30 a year and fifty acres of land; the next year ihe salary was in-
creased to £o0. Soon alter this, the inhabitants of Arundel finding it difficult to raise the
whole salary for Mr. Eveleth's support, arranged with the inhabitants of Winter Harbor
to have him preach there one half the time. This division of pastoral labor may not have
been carried on for any great length of time, for the minister proved to be too useful a per-
son to he spared from the homes of the people of Arundel. In 17*29. at his owu request,
the town dismissed him, though "very unwilling," «ays Bradbury, "he should leave
them, as he was not only their minister and school-master, but a irood blacksmith and
farmer, and the best fisherman in town. He still resided here," the same writer continues,
•'in 1732." According to the College catalogue, his death occurred in the year 1734. — See
Bradbury's Kennebunkport.
VOL. XLY. 15*

178 Letters of Got. Thomas Westhrooh and others, [April,

Gave a furlo to Dan 11 Davis, of my Company, and Nath. Larrance of
Cap* Peckers C°, Permited Lewis Lattarell, one of our poilots, to wait on
his Hono r y° L 1 Gov r having no further Servis for him for y e present,
Recomended him to his Hon r that he had ben always Redy to Serve as pilot
according to y e best of his knowledg &c.

Gave orders and Directions to Cap* Wheelwright to Proceed to wells,
and Joyn his L* Moultou, at wells, and to keep a Constant Scout from
thence to Berwik and on y c bak of York, and wrote orders to L* Moultou
to Joyn him and to proceed according to his Directions.

Wrote Cap* Penhallow, to Send som men to Richmond, to Releive Lu*
Oliver and the men with him, and advis d him that Doct r Moody, being Sent
Down as one of y e Surgeons to ye forces and was to be suply'd oute of y e
Publick Chest att Georgtown, Desired him to forward him what he Could
in that matter; Ordered him to send what men ware att Arrowsik, of Cap'
Shiplys Company, to this place.

May 17 th Wrote to Doc tr Ellis and Doc tr Hill to Lett D r Moody be
Suply'd with what he wanted out of y e Publick Chest and Dispatch him
neither as soon as Possible.

Aron Knap Dismis', who belong' 1 to Cap* Peckers Company, att his own
Request: he being Lame. ' i

Wrote Cap 1 Barker to send a barr 11 of Porke, and Bread preportionable,
to Maquoit Garrison.

Falmoth, May "J 8 th Posted 3 men att James Flys House, att y e ferry at
black point, and Wrote him the following Orders, Viz 1 . You are to take
with you to Reside att YV house, Jn° Presberry, Tho" Harris, and Sampson
Plumer, they are to watch and ward and help to tend y e Ferry when Yo r
House is made Defencable, which they are Comanded to attend in doing of,
Imediatly.

Ordered Corp 11 Seavy to Send Ebenezer Seavy and Benjamin Larraby
to Roger Deariugs Garrison thear to Remain till Further Orders. jj

Gave the following Instructions to Cap 1 Shiply and Cap* Gookin to take
Care of Fall moth &c.

Gentlemen, I Direct Y"ow to take Care of the town of Falmoth, and
Guard y e Inhabitants thearof, yow are to se that Strict watches and Wards
be Kept, for y e Security of Them, and Y'ow are likewise to Keep a Con- I

tiuewed Scout, between Pesumpscut River and Saco Falls, which must Con-
sist of no Less than 20 men. and what more Yow can Spare, which Scoute
must Sometimes way lay pesumpscut River. Lett fare Jorivals of Yo r pro-
ceading be Kept, aud Copys thearof transmitted to me, once a fortnight,
or as Soon as possible. You are likwise from time to [time to] Inspect the
Garrisons in and Aboute Blak point, Spurwink, and perpadok.* Se that
y e men posted in Then] faithfully Do thear Dutty of watching and warding
and Guarding the Inhabitants. And on Notice of y e Enemy approach, you
are Imediatly to Endeavor to Intercept them and Relive y e Garrison or
town thay may attacke ; and I Expect Yow be att y e head of s d Scouts as
often as possible: and Yow have Liberty with s d Scout to Go to Berwick

* Scarborough, seven miles from Portland, was formerly known as Black Point and
Blue. Point, the latter now a part of Saco.

The settlements at Falmouth called Spurwink and Purpooduck were entirely destroyed
in August, 1703, twenty-two, it is stated, being killed and taken captive in Spurwink.
Twenty-live of the inhabitants of Purpooduck, we are informed, were butchered in the
most barbarous manner, and eight taken prisoners ; a sad fate for the nine families of the
place.

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas WesthrooJc and others, 179

when you think it for the Security of The inhabitants, Not Tarrying above
24 hours. Datted att Falmoth may 18 th 1723. T. W.

To Cap* John Sliiply \
and Dan 11 Gookin. j »

Wrote to his Hon r y e Lir Gov r

May 19 th Wrote to y e Lu* Goveu r , Incloasing my Journal to y e 6 th
Current.

Pray'd his Hon r in behalf of Capt n Sliiply, to permit him to [go to]
Boston; gave Doctor Ellis a permit to go to boston and wait on his IIon r
y e Lu* Gouv r , p r Cap* Sanders' Sloop merry meting. Wrote Orders to
Sanders to Sail for boston, Delivering my Letters as Directed, and wait ou
M r Treasurer Allen's further Orders. Datted at Failmoth May 20 th 1723.
Cap* 11 Sanders Sail'd; Lu* Oliver arriv'd y e 19 lh Current from Richmond.
Sent Ensign Cannada to North Yarmouth to bring Down 2 boats Crews,
to whom I Gave, on his Arival, the 2G tu the following Orders.

Ensign Keneday,

S r Yow are to proceed with 12 men und r your Care
to black point, and take Six of the ablest men that is thear in Garrison,
and for y e Space of 14 Days, or till I arrive, the first 2 Days yow must
Scout betwen black point and Spurwink, and the Remaineing part of the
time yow must aid and Assist y c Inhabitants, in Guarding them to get their
Cattle and other nessesarys. While Yo r Scouts are Gate, Yow must se
that Your men Observe trew Order and Dissipline. Datted att Falmoth,
may 2G th 1723.

The 21 st Ensign Kenaday went to black point, Carrying with him Do r
Moody, to Vissit Capt Ward att Winter harbor.

Ordered Jacob Parker to sail P r first fair wind with the Sik men that he
had on board that I had Dismist and furlo d , that he should land L l Beau att
York, and thence proceed to Boston and wait y e treasurers further Orders.

22 d : Sent Lu*. Brintnal, to Small point,* with Leters to Serjant Card,
&c.

Lu*. Brintnal, Yow are on Sight hearof, to take o : men and a whale
boat and proceed to Smal point Garrison and Deliver the Inclosed as Di-
rected, and Return to me hear or Elce whare as I shall Leve orders with
the Comanding Oficer of This Place.

Serj 1 . Card,

on Recip* hearof, Yow are to muster the men with Yow, and

* At a meeting of the proprietors of "The Pejepscot Company," in Boston, May 24th,
1716, it was " Voted, That a Town be laid out at Small Point." This place " was on the
shore of Small Point Harbor, near where Francis Small had had a trading-house, from
which, with John Hanson and probably others, he was driven by the Indian War, about
1690." " Captain John Pcnhaliow was allowed three rimes the number of acres conceded
to the other settlers," " if he would build a house thereon, take charge of the Company
affairs," &c.

On the 6th of Nov., 1717, the first Town Meeting was held, and the name given to the
place was that of Augusta. See article entitled "Augusta: at Small Point Harbor,"
printed in "The Northern Monthly," pages 475-478. Portland. September. 1864; also,
ante, p. 28.

An interesting extract from the Pejepscot Records, page 7, bearing on this point, may
he found inserted in Coolidge and Mansfield's History and Description of New England,
note, page 2o9. "Whereas, at a meeting of the Proprietors of Pejepscot, on the 23d
of April, 171S, it was voted that there bo allowed and granted to bur partner, Oliver
Noyes, Esq., his heirs and assigns, three hundred acres of land in Augusta township, which
is comprehended within the limits of Georgetown " [that town then included the peninsula
ofPhipsburg] " in consideration of the expense and loss he has been at in settling said
town." See also ante, page 28, note.

180 Letters of Col. Thomas Westhiooh and others. [April

when Yow have taken oute 9 men to Stay att y e forte, Deliver the Rest to
Lu*. Brintnall, who has Orders to Convey them to me; see Yow keep Good
Watches and wards, and Dont Stir from yo r Garrison Till Further Orders.
let y e men that come with Brintual have three week allowance.

Datted att Falmoth, may 22 d 1723.

This Day, ahoute noon, Came to Sail, and that night ariv'd att Small
point Harbor.

May 23. Brintnal Came on board of us, with 4 men from the Garrison,
two belonging to Cap 1 Herman, and 2 to Cap tn Wheelwright. I went with
2 boats with Cap tn Barker and Cap tn Tilton &c. to Georgtown. ordering
the Sloop to Follow us. On our Arrival, I Gave Cap 1 Carlile his Com-
mision, and Gave him the Charg of Fekers Company, with the following
Orders.

S r . I Direct Yow to Send 1G men to Richmond oute of Yo r Own and
Cap tn Pekers Company, which when Called back must have as many Sent
in thear Rooms, so that thare may be Constantly 1G left thear. Yow must
likewise keep 4 boats Constantly on y c River, with 46 men out of y e Seve-
ral Companys hear, and Yow must Direct them to Go Som times Round
y e Island thr° monsweg Bay* and so to y e mouth of y e East River Opposite - -
to Swan ls!and,t which Place or any Other yow think proper thay must
way lay, and Scout Such other places as yow think for the Publick Servis.
Trusting to Yo r Cure and Conduct, S r I am Yo r asur'd Freind, T. W.

To Cap tn Georg Carlile.

To Lu*. John March.

S r . Yow are Imediatly to Send to Richmond for the men under yo T
Care thear, and on thear arival Victual hear for three weeks, and then Pro-
ceed to Saco falls for further Orders, and for so Doing this shall be You 1
Warrant. T. W.

We then went Down y e River in the boats to the Sloop and went to Sea,
intending westward this Night, Proved Verry Stormy and we ware tos 1 : So
that we Lost two whale boats from our Stern ; by Sun Rise we Came to
Black point, hear I victual'd the Garrison and left Brintnal with 14 men
to Joyn Ensigu Kenada, as A Scout. I wrote y e following orders to ni r
Dearing.

May The 24 th .

S r . Please to take y* Charge of the men now posted at y r Garrison
and hear after mentioned, so thay Keep a Strick* watch and ward, and
theay are hearby Commanded to Observe the Directions thearin and Not
to Stray from y e Garrison withoute Yo r order. Dated att Black Point,
1723. T. W.

Jn° Ashton, Benjamin Hastings, Richard Davis,
Richard Page, and Jn° Orsburn.

To M r llosrer Dearing.

* Sir William Pliips, the first royal governor of the province of Massachusetts, and the
commander of the first expedition against Canada, about 1690, was a native of Woolwich.
having been horn on a peninsular projection into Monsweag bay, in the southeast part,
Feb. 2, 1650.— Coolidge and Mansfield's Hist, and Descrip. of New England, pp. 367, 36^.

The location of Mouseag Bay is described by Williamson (Hist, of Maine, I. .52). Arrow-
sick and Parker's Islands southerly, and Woolwich and Jeremisquam Island, now West-
port, northerly.

f Swan island, in Kennebeck river, Sagadahoc connty, fourteen miles north of Bath.
formerly a part of Dresden, incorporated June 24, 1847, by the name of Perkins. The
town is four miles long, by two hundred rods wide. They have a Board of Selectmen.
Town Clerk, Board of Health, School Supervisor, High School, &c. The number of in-
habitants, in 1880, was 78, being one of the smallest towns in population. Donhum's'
Maine Register, Portland, 1889.

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas WestbrooJc and others. 181

may 24 ta . We Proceeded to Cape porpos*, from whence I sent the
2 men belonging to Cap 1 Marraan and Capt Wheel rights, 2 men to vvels,
directing Cap 1 Wheelwright if he found the wind Contrary to proceed to
wells.

Cape Porpos may 24 th , 1723.
I wrote the Following Order, To Lu 1 . Jn° Lane.

S r Yow are hearby Directed to take the Charg of the men belonging to
y* Company whearof yow are Lu 1 . and Observe these orders You shall
Receive from Capt. Sam 11 Wheelright till Yow Receive further Orders.

Yor 8 &c. T. W.

May 25 th . I went with Capt. Barker and Cap 1 Tilton to View y e garri-
sons and Victual'd them.

25 th . This Day A Scooner Came into Cape Porpos and Enform'd me
that thear porlot [pilot] and Skip 1 was Dead, on board, being Kil'd by the
Indians at Montinicus-t We Sent. for y e Crews on board who gave the
Following Declaration, Viz 1 that thear Scooner lying in Company with a
Sloop, the Indians in Cannoes fell upon them, aboute an hour before Day,
and fired upon them sever 11 times, which they Return'd, that thay had kil'd
one Frd. Pollard, of Ipswich, and Benjamin Majory, of Cape porpos. Be-
leiving that there was a body of Indians, I acquainted his Hon*, the Lu 1 .
Gover. with this, by One Bego, who I ordered to have 2 hands as a Guard
to wels, and sent word to Capt. Wheelwright to be on his Guard. We
sail'd this Night from Cape porpos to Winter harbor.

May 27 th . I sent word to Capt. Ward of The Disaster that hapned att
mentinicos, with Orders to be on his Guard, then we Sail'd to blackpoint.
I sent word to the Garrisons and Scouts thear; form thence I went to
Spurwink whear I order'd them Likewise to be on their Guard and Victual'd
Mitchels Garrison, and then Sail'd to Falmoth, and Arived thear that
Night. Lu 1 . March ariv'd hear from Georgtown.
May 28 th .

This morning I wrote to N. Yarmouth, Small point, Georgtown,
maquoit, and Brunswick, aquainting Them of what hapned att montinicos,
and Gave them Orders to be on thear Guard, Directing Cap 1 . Carlile to
Send News thearof to Richmond.

This being his Majesty King Georges Birth Day, we keep 1 it with all
y e Demonstrations of Joy, and Drink towards his Majesties Helth, y a
Prince and Princes, with all the Royal Famaly, The Gouer" and Gentle-
mens helths in Order.

On Enoch Leonard 8 Request, I permited him to wait on his Hon'
the Lu 1 Gov r .

Falmoth 28:1723.

I wrote to Lu 1 March, to Take up his Quarters att Cap 111
Whealright's Garrison and ly on y c back of The Garrisons from Wheal-
wrights to Littlefeikls Garrison, att Kenebunk River, and once a fortnight
to Scout to Saco falls &c.

May 29 th . Cap 1 Ward.
For what men Yow Can Spare and are not Yett posted Lett them be att
y e fall att Saco as a Guard till yow Recive further Orders. I am, Yo rs

T. W.

* Afterwards Arundel, now Kennebunkport.

f " Matinieus Island is another such as Monhecran, situate 17 miles south of Owl's head,
and 10 east of Metinic." " The main passage into Penobscot bay from the sea is between
Matinieus and the Green Islands." Williamson's Mai?ie, I. 63.

182 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others. [April,

S r . I Direct You to Victual att Casco, When yo r Provition is Oute,
and then with the whaleboats and the whole Scout make the best of Yo T
way to me att Georg Town, Thear to Recive further Orders.

Dated att Falmoth, May 29, 1723.
To Ensign Keneda, att T. W.

Black Point.

Georgtown, May 30 th 1723.

Aboute Noon, ariv'd with M r Sloctim from Casco Bay.

y e 31 8t . A Raw, Northerly Storm of Rain.

Ensign Maggoon Arriv'd from Brunswick, who afirms and Declares,
that as thay Came Down thay went a Shore on an Island, in the Chops of
the bay, whear thay Espy'd a pine tree, newly Cutt Down aboute 2 or 3
Days Since as he Judg d , and Nigh to that, was a Birch Pole sett up, the
top being Split, and a piece of Birch Rind Stuck in it, and 60 Notches
wear Cutt in s d pole, and on y e Stump of s d tree wear 3 midling stones
Newly Lay'd, and likewise thear had been latly a fier made on s d Island,
Near the place. By all w ch it cannot but be Judged that thear has been a
Considerable Body of Indians of Late on s d Island.

Georgtown, may 31 th , 1723.
The aboue Written Declaration being made and amrm'd by Ensign PJa-
gown and Thomas Motherwel on their arivall from Brunswick to this place,
it was tho* Proper to make an allarra to Give notis to y e Inhabitants West-
ward, that thay might be on thear Guard, In as much as The present Storm
Prevents our Sending Either by land or watter, Neither Can we at pre-
sent by any Means follow or persue after them. T. W.
Georgtown, May 81"', 1723. Present

Era: Barker
Georg Carlile
Jacob Tilton
Jn° Butler

Lu*. Allen, Georgtown, may 31 st , 1723.

S r on Sight hearof, Yow are to Draw outt all y e men under
yo r Comand att Richmond Garrison, Except 2o to be left under the Care
of m r Colby, and Order him to Stand on his Guard till Further Orders:
and with The Rest, Yow are to proceed to Stevenses Carrying, bring with
Yow 7 Days Provitions and Not Less then a pound of Pouder to Eatch
man, and ball answerable; fail I not of being thear as Soon as the wether
will permit, and place Yo r Selves in the most Likely places yow Can to
Intercept y e Indians. I purpose to meet yow att s d Place as Soon as the
wether will allow of it, w th a party of men. Given under my hand,

T. W.

P.S. Ensign Magown, being newly ariv'd from Brunswik in a whale
boat, brings word, that they went a Shore on an Island in the Chops of the
bay, whear they Espyed a pine tree, Newly Cutt Down, and a birch pole
Set up by it, haveing 60 Notches Cut in it, y e top of it Split, and a peice
of birch Rind Stuck in it, and Nigh to the s d a fier had ben made, all tho*
to be Don aboute 2 or 3 days agone, on which I Caused an allaram to be
made, that all might have Notis to be on thear Guards.

L* Sam 1 Eaton, Georgtown, May 31 : 1723.

S r . on Sight hearof, yow are to Draw outt 8 of yo r Efective men,
and Send them Imediatly, with 7 Days Provition and Eatch a pound of

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JRev. Nicholas Street and his Descendants.

183

poud r and ball answerable to Stevens' Carrying place, in order to Joyn L*
Allen, who is Now thear. Give yo r men Strict Orders Not to Keep y*
path with y e Rest of Yo r men. Yow are to keep verry Strict Guards and
Look outt Sharp. Given under my hand, T. W.

P.S. — advise him y e same as to Lu* Allen aboute magown Declaration.

May 31, 1723.

Ordered Cap* Carlile and L* Butler, to fill oute 42 men with a week
Provition and Amunition to be Ready to march with me p r first fare
wether, up the River, in Quest of the Enemy that was Suposed to be past.

p* Eusign Magowns Information,

Serjant Leonard ariv'd in a whale boat from S* Georges Garrison
with Bryant Tool, who has been long Sik; advises that Serja' Michal
Thomas, and one Cory, Dyed thear within aboute a fortnight. No news
thear of the Enemy.

June 1 : I went up with Capt. Barker, Capt. Carlile, and Cap tn Tilton,
and Ensign Wright, with 40 men in 4 whaleboats, to the Island In the
Chaps of the bay, wheat Ensign Maggown made y fr Discovery of Signs of
the Indians haveing ben thear very Lately.

We Could Not Judg their had ben any Indians So lately as Was tho*
by Our men. From [thence] We proceeded to Stevenses Carrying Place,
but Could make No Discovery, nor see Any Signs of Indians.

Saboth Day, The Second of June The Reverend M r Pierponte Preach'
2 Sermons, from Ezekiel 26: 36: 37.
Georgtown, June y e 3 d , 1723.

Ordered Cap tn Carlile to Send a Scout of 30 men thro y e woods to
Brunswick, to Endeavor to Discover whither any Indians had Not past
that way.

Wrote his hon r the Lu* Gove r in answer to his Last letters, Incloasing a
Distribution of The forces att this present time according to his Directions.

The 4 th att Night, Sent oute 30 men und r the Care of Lu' Brintual and
Ensign Cannada, in 3 whale boats, in Order to Way lay the Indians in
thear Passing and Repassing in Monsweek bay, whare they are Ordered to
Ly Still in their Boats Till Break of. Day, and Then Retire.

Georgetow[n], June 4, 1723.

Mass. Archives, 38 A, pages 22-41. Tho 9 Westbrook.

[To be continued.]

KEY. NICHOLAS STREET AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

By Henry A. Street, Esq., of New Haven, Ct.

1. Rev. Nicholas 1 Street or Streete came from Taunton, England.
The place of his birth is unknown. He was matriculated at the
University of Oxford, Nov. 2, 1621, and is then described as eigh-
teen, and as from Somersetshire. He received the degree of
B.A. at Oxford, Feb. 21, 102-1-5. About 1638 he was settled at
Taunton in the Plymouth Colony, now in Massachusetts, as col-
league with Rev. William Hooke. Lechford (Plain Dealing, p.

vi.

vii.

viii

ix.

184 Rev, Nicholas Street and his Descendants, [April,

96) says, that Mr. Streete was ordained Teacher of the Church,
by Master Jlooke, assisted by Bishop, a schoolmaster, and one Par-
ker a husbandman.

Mr. Street followed Mr. ITooke to New Haven, where he took
the latter's place as colleague of Rev. John Davenport, Sept. 20,
1659. After Mr. Davenport was called to Boston, Sept. 27, 16G7,
he had sole charge of the First Church till his own death, April 22,
1674, when for eleven years there was no settled pastor. By Lis
1st wife, whose maiden name is said to have been Boole, he had five
children. His 3d wife was widow of Gov. Newman. Children:

2. i. Samuel, 2 b. 1(535 ; m. Nov. 3, 1664, Anna Miles. lie d. Jan. 17, 1717.

She d. July lis 1730.

ii. Susannah, m. Mason.

iii. Sarah, m. 1GG2, James Heaton.

iv. Abiah, in. Sept. 28, 1664, Daniel Sherman. Had 3 children.

v. Hannah, m. Andrews.

2. Rev. Samuel 2 Street (Nicholas 1 ) was graduated, from Harvard Col-

lege 1GC4, one of the first settlers of Wallingford. Installed
1674, first pastor there, and remained till his death, Jan. 17, 1717.
Married Nov. 3, 1GC4, Anna, daughter of Richard and Katherine
Miles. She died July 19, 1730. Children : j

i. Anna, 3 b. at New Haven, Aug. 17, 1665 ; d. before her father.

3. ii. Samuel, b. at New Haven. July 27, 1GG7 ; in. 1st, Nov. 1, 1684, Madeline

Daniels; m. 2d, July 14, 1690, Hannah Glover, d. July 3, 1715: m.
3d, Dec. 20, 1716, Elizabeth . Had 3 children by his 1st mar-
riage and 7 by his 2d.

iii. Mary, b. at New Haven, Sept. 0, 1670.

iv. Susanna, b. at Wallingford, June 15, 1G75 : m. Dea. John Peck, May |

23, 1694.

4. v. Nicholas, b. at Wallingford, July 14, 1677; m. .Jerusha Morgan.
■ vi. Katherine, b. at Wallingford, Nov. 29, 1679 : m. Joshua Culver.

vii. Sarah, b. at Wallingford, Jan. 15, 1681; m. Theophihis Yale.

3. Lieut. Samuel 3 Street (Samuel? Nicholas 1 ), horn at New Haven,

July 27, 1667; married 1st, Nov. 1, 1 084. Madeline Daniels; 2d,
July 14, 1690, Hannah Glover, died July 3, 1715; 3d, Dec. 20,
1716, Elizabeth . Children by 1st marriage:

i. Samuel, 4 b. Nov. 3. 1G85 ; d. .

ii. James, b. Dec. 28, 1686; m. Rebecca Scoville, Sept. 6, 1731, and had
2 children: Samuel,* b. Sept. 6, 1732; James, b. Sept. 14, 1733.

iii. Anna, b. Aug. 26, 1G88.

Children by 2d marriage:
iv. Eleanor, b. Dec. 3, 1690-

Nathaniel, b. Jan. 19, 1G92; m. Mary Raymond, Nov. 25, 1719.
Elnathax, b. Sept. 2. 1695; m. Damans Hull, February, 1721-2.
Mary, b. April 1G, 1698; m. John Hall, of Wallingford, March 5,

1716.
Mehitable, b. Feb. 15, 1699; m. Abraham Bassett. Feb. 2, 1720.
JonN, b. Oct. 25, 1703; m. Hannah Hall, June 9, 1734.
Samuel, b. May 10, 1707; m. 1st, Keziah Munson, Nov. 12, 1734; 2d,

Sarah At water.

4. Nicholas 8 Street (Samuel? Nicholas 1 ) was a tailor, lived at Groton.

Twice appointed deputy. Married Jerusha Morgan, April 22, 1707.
Had three children, perhaps more :

8. i. James, 4 b. Feb. 10, 1708; in. 1st, Kesiah Hayes; 2d. Emblem Hood.

ii. Elizabeth, b. April 21. 1709; m. Smith; no children.

iii. Jerusha, b. 1715; m. Thomas Starr; had 4 children.

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5. Nathaniel 4 Street (Samuel, 8 Samuel,* Nicholas 1 ), born Jan. 19,

1692; married Nov. 25, 1719, Mary Raymond. He died Sept. 24,
1748. Children:

i. Samuel,* b. Oct. 13, 1720.

ii. Hannah, b. Sept. 8, 1722; m. Eliakim Raymond, Nov. 27, 1740.

iii. Timothy, b. Dec. 1, 1723.

9. iv. John, b. July 22, 1728; m. Hannah Jarvis; d. Aug. 27, 1808.

v. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 1, 1735; went to Canada about 1780.

6. Elnathan 4 Street (Samuel, 3 Samuel, 3 Nicholas 1 ), born Sept. 2,

1695; married Damaris Hull, February, 1721-2. He and his wife
both died the same year, 1787. Children:

i. Benjamin,* b. May 18, 1723.

Ii. Samuel, b. Jan. 10, 1725 ; d. Jan. 18, 1725.

iii. Samuel, b. Dec. 8, 1728.

10. iv. Nicholas, b. Feb. 21, 1730; m. 1st, Desire Thompson, Dec. 6, 1758;

2d, Hannah Austin, April 24, 1766.
v. Elnathan, b. Feb. 20, 1732.

vi. Anna, b. Feb. 10, 1736; m. Theophilus Jones 2d, May 24, 175J.
vii. Mary, b. June 28, 1738; m. Samuel Davenport, 1700.

11. viii. Jesse, b. April 24, 1741 ; m. Lois Cook. He d. March 7, 1784.

7. Samuel 4 Street (Samuel, 3 Samuel, 2 Nicholas 1 ), born May 10, 1707;

d. 1792; married 1st, Keziah Munson, Nov. 12, 1734; 2d, Sarah
Atwater, who died Oct. 1, 1795, age 68. Child by 1st marriage:
i. Glover, 5 b. May 27, 1735 ; m. 1755, Lydia Allen, of North Haven,
d. Nov. 28, 1826.

Children by 2d marriage :
ii. Titus, b. June 4, 1750; m. Amaryllis Atwater, of Cheshire.
iii. Caleb, b. Oct. 23, 1753 ; m. 1st, Hall ; 2d, Susannah Whittlesey [?]

8. James 4 Street (Nicholas 3 Samuel 3 Nicholas 1 ), born Feb. 10, 1708;

married 1st, Kesiah Hayes; 2d, Emblem Hood. Children by 1st

marriage :
i. Son, 3 d. aged about 9 years.

ii. Catherine, in. James Morgan, 1758 ; d. Nov. 25, 1774, aged 39.
iii. Jerusiia, m. John Woodman.
iv. Hannah, m. Joseph Bailey, Sept. 23, 1781.
v. Elizabeth, m. David Lester.
vi. Zipporah, m. Thomas Starr.
vii. Micaii, m. Henry Woodbridge.
viii. Sally, m. Jonathan Bailey.

Children by 2d marriage:
ix. Mary, d. Oct. 8, 177G, aged 20.
x. Susannah, unmarried; d. May 28, 1830, aged 74 years.

9. John* Street (Nathaniel* Samuel 3 Samuel 3 Nicholas 1 ), born July

22, 1728; married Hannah Jarvis; died Aug. 27, 1808. Children :

i. Sarah. 6

ii. Nathaniel Jarvis, b. Jan. 20, 1758 ; m. 1st, Jane Nash ; 2d, Hannah
Nash; 3d, Esther Warren.

iii. John, b. Oct. 2, 1759 ; m. Nov. 28, 1812, Sylvia Bressey ; d. Dec. 13,
1833.

iv. Polly.

v. David, b. June 16, 17G5; m. 1st, Ehoda Morehouse; 2d, Sarah Law-
rence ; 3d, Anna Knapp. ,

vi. Anna.

vii. Joseph, b. July 22, 17G8; m. 1788, Jerusha Taylor ; d. April 26, 1813.

viii. Greenleaf, b. March 25, 1771; m. Susan Whitney, Dec. 28, 1794;

d. April 20, 1853.
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186 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [April,

10. Rev. Nicholal 5 Street (Elnathan, 4 Samuel, 3 Samuel, 2 Nicholas 1 ),

married 1st, Desire Thompson, Dec. 6, 17.08; 2d, Hannah Austiu,
April 24, 17G6.

i. Ettmcia, 6 b. Oct. 27, 1759; m. 1783, Rev. Stephen Stebbins; d. Aug.

17, 1817.

ii. Desire, b. Aug. 16, 1701 ; m. 1779, John Morris.
iii. Lucinda, b. July 17, 17(53; m. 1st, Darius Hiscock; 2d, Titus Ailing;
3d, Theophilus Miles.

Children by 2d marriage :
iv. Hannah, b. March 8, 17G7; m. Reuben Moulthrop, Nov. 18, 1792; d.

Jan. 15, 1820.
v. Moses Augustine, b. Jan. 29, 17G9; d. May 3, 1709.
vi. Moses Augustine, b. April 5, 1770 ; m. Lois Smith, 1797 ; d. Feb.

24, 1824.
-vii. Nicholas, b. March 22, 1772 ; m. Betsy Morris.
viii. Elnathan, b. Feb. 1G, 1774; m. Clarissa Morris.
ix. Justine Washington, b. Nov. 4, 1772; m. Annie Whidden, March

18, 1802 ; d. May, 1830.

x. Mary, b. Oct. G, 1782 ; m. (2d wife) William Storer; d. May 12, 1836.

11. Jesse 5 Street {Elnathan* Samuel, 3 Samuel, 2 Nicholas 1 ), born April

24, 1741; married Lois Cook. Children:
i. Sarah, 6 b. 177G. i

ii. Hoiiatio Gates, m. Lois Holt.

iii. Thabdeus, m. 1st, Mary Hall, Nov. 25, 1801; 2d, Martha D. Rey-
nolds, Dec. 17, 1823.
iv. Benjamin, m. Pollv Bracllev.
v. Lucretia, m. Joel Hall, Feb. 4, 1793.
vi. Anna, d. June 19, 1792, aged 17.
vii. Lois, b. 1784 ; m. Dr. George Holloway.

^" Any genealogical items can be sent to Mrs. Mary A. Street, Corres-
ponding Secretary of the Street Family Association of England and
America, Exeter, N. H., U. S. A.

GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.

By Henry F. Waters, A.M.
[Continued from page 99.]

Willi'm Penne of Myntie in the County of Gloucester, Yeoman; 1 May
1590, proved 21 April 1502. My body to be buried within the parish
church, chancel or churchyard of Minty where my friends shall think meet.
To the poor of said parish twenty shillings.

Item I. give and bequeath unto Giles, William, Mary, Sara and Susanna
Penn, being the children of my late son William Penn, deceased, twenty
pounds apiece, at age of twenty one or day of marriage each. To Margaret
Penn, widow, late wife to William Penn my sou deceased, ten pounds, to be
paid yearly during her natural life, at the Feast of the Annunciation of the
Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel, by equal portions, if she shall
and do so long keep herself sole and chaste and unmarried. The said
Margaret Penn, my daughter in law, and my overseers shall have the whole
charge, rule and government of my heir and of all the rest of the children

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 187

which were the sons and daughters of William Penn, ray son deceased, and
of all such lands and tenements and hereditaments and of all such goods
aud chattels as I shall leave at my death till such time as my heir shall ac-
complish and be of the full age of twenty one years. The rest of all my
goods &c I give and bequeath to George Penn, being the eldest son of
William Penn, my late son deceased, whom I do make my sole executor of
this my last will and testament. The overseers to be M r Robert George
of Cirencester and Richard Lawrence of Withiugeton in the County of
Gloucester Gen 1 , and Francis Bradshawe of Wokesey in the Couuty of
Wiltshire Gen fc .

I further give to Richard Bidle one cow and to his daughter Katherine
Bidle oue heifer of two years of age. Also I give to my daughter Ann
Greene one heifer and to Elizabeth Greene One heifer, each of them to be
two years old. I give to William Mallibrooke one yearling heifer. And
likewise I lastly give to Alice Shermor my old white mare.

Wit: Francis Bradshewe gen 1 , William Tailer and Richard Munden with
others. Harrington, 31.

Sir William Penn of London, Knight, 20 January 1669, proved 6
October 1670 by William Penn. To be buried in the parish church of
Redcliffe in the City of Bristol, near the body of my dear mother deceased
as conveniently may be. Aud my will is that there shall be erected in the
said church, as near unto the place where my body shall be buried as the
same can be contrived, an handsome and decent tomb to remain as a monu-
ment, as well for my said mother as for myself, the charges thereof to be
defrayed by my executor, hereafter named, out of my personal estate. To
my dear wife Dame Margaret Penn, immediately after my decease, three
hundred pouuds sterling, together with all my Jewells, other than what I
shall herein alter particularly devise, and the use, during her life, of one
full moiety of all my plate and household stuff and all such coaches aud
coach horses or coach mares and all such cows as I shall happen to leave.
To my younger son Richard Penn four thousand pounds sterling, together
with my fawcett dyamond ring and all my swords, guns & pistols; the said
four thousand pouuds to be paid him at his age of one & twenty and not
sooner. Aud until he shall arrive at the said age my executor shall pay
unto my said son Richard, out of my personal estate, the yearly sum of one
hundred twenty pounds, for his support and maintenance, aud no longer.
To my dear granddaughter Margaret Lowther one hundred pounds ster-
ling. I give unto my two nephews James Bradshaw and William Marke-
ham, to each of them ten pounds sterling. Unto my two nephews John
Bradshaw and George Markeham, to each five pounds sterling. Unto my
cousin William Peun, son of George Penu, late of the parish of Bravden in
the County of Wilts, gentleman, deceased, ten pounds sterling. To my
cousin Eleanor Xeene the yearly sum of six pouuds during her life. To
my late servant William Bradshaw forty shillings, to buy him a ring. To
my servant John Wrenn five pounds sterling. To the poor of the parish
of Redcliife twenty pounds sterling. To the poor of S t Thomas, Bristol,
twenty pounds sterling. To my eldest son William Penn my gold chain
and medall, with the rest and residue of all and singular my plate, house-
hold stuff, goods, chattels & personal estate not herein before devised, as
also the said goods and premisses devised to be used by my said dear wife,
during her life, from and after the decease of my said wife. My son
William to be sole executor, and I appoint him at my fuueral to give

188 r Genealogical Gleanings in England. [April,

■

mourning unto my said dear wife, my said son Richard, my daughter
Margaret Lowther and my son in law Anthony Lowther, the hushand of
my said daughter, and unto Dr. Whistler and his wife &c. And although
I cannot apieheud that any differences can fall out or happen between my
said dear wife and my said son William, after my decease, in relation to any
thing by me devised or limited by this my will, or in relation to any other
matter or thing whatsoever, yet, in case any such difference should arise, I
do hereby request and desire and, as in me lyeth, require, conjure and
direct my said dear wife and my said son William, by all the obligations of
duty, affection and respect which they have and ought to have to me and
my memory, that all such differences, of what nature or kind soever they
shall be, by the joynt consents and submission of my said dear wife and my
said son William be at all times and from time to time referred to the arbi-
tration & final judgment and determination of ray worthy friend Sir William
Coventry of the parish of S t Martin in the Fields, in the County of
Middlesex &c. i

Wit: R. Langhorne, John Radford, William Markham.

On the margin of the leaf appears the following : — Quinto Aprilis 1671°
Recepi Testum oriie dni Willimi Fenn defti e Reg r0 Curia} Prerogative
Cantuar g mo W m Fenn.

Testibus Car Tuckyr Ri: Edes. Penu, 130.

I William Fenn Esq. so call c d Chief Proprietary and Governor of the
Province of Pensilvania and the Territories thereunto belonging being of
sound mind and understanding for which I bless God doe make and declare
this my last Will and Testament My eldest son being well provided for
by a Settlement of his mothers and my fathers estate I give and dispose of
the rest of rny estate in manner following The Government of my
Province of Pensilvania and Territories thereunto belonging and all powers
relating thereunto I give and devise to the most' Honorable the Earl of
Oxford and Earle Mortimer and to Will Earle Poulet so call'd and their
heires upon trust to dispose thereof to the Queen or any other person to
the best advantage and profit they can to be applied in such manner as I
shall herein after direct. I give and devise to my dear wife Hannah Penn
and her frather Thomas Callowhill and to my good ff'riends Margaret
Lowther my dear sister and to Gilbert Ileathcote Physician Samuel Wal-
denfield John ifitdd Henry Goldney all living in England and to my
ffriends Samuel Carpenter Richard Hill Isaac Norris Samuel Preston 1 and
James Logan living in or near Pensilvania and their heirs all my Lands
tenements and hereditaments whatever rents and other profkts scituate lying
and being in Pensilvania and the Territories thereunto belonging or else-
where in America upon Trust that they shall sell and dispose of so much
thereof as shall be suflicient to pay all my just debts and from and after
payment thereof shall convey unto each of the three children of my sou
William Penn Gulielma Maria Springett and William respectively and to
their respective heirs ten thousand acres of Land iu some proper and
beneficial places to be let out by my Trustees aforesaid all the rest of my
lauds and hereditaments whatsoever scituate lying and being in America I
will that my said Trustees shall convey to and amongst my children which
I have by my present Wife in such proportions and for such estates as my
said Wife shall think fit but before such conveiance shall be made to my
said children I will that my said Trustees shall convey to my daughter
Aubry whom I omitted to name before ten thousand acres of my said lands

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 189

in such places as my Trustees shall think fitt all my personall Estate in
Pensilvania and elsewhere and arreers of rent due there I giue to my said
dear Wife whom I make my sole executrix for the equall benefit of her and
her children. In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and seale to this
my Will which I declare to be my last Will revoking all others formerly
made by me. W m Penn [l. s.]

Signed sealed and published by the Testator William Perm in the pres-
ence of us who set our names as Witnesses thereof in the presence of the
said Testator after the interlineation of the words above viz (whom I make
my sole Executrix) Sarah West Susanna Reading Tho 8 Pyle Rob" Lomax
Rob* West.

This Will I have made when ill of a ffeaver at London with a clear un-
derstanding of what I did then but because of some unworthy expressions
belying Gods goodness to me as if I knew not what I did I do now that I
am recovered through Gods goodness hereby declare it is my last Will and
Testament at Ruscombe in Berkshire this 27 of y e the 3 ,n called May 1712.

W m Penn [l. s.]

Witnesses present Elizabeth Penn Tho 8 Pyle Thomas Penn Elizabeth
Anderson Mary Chandler Jonah Dee Mary Dee.

Postscript in my own hand as a farther Testimony of my Love to my
D r Wife I of my own mind give unto her out of the rents in America viz :
Pensilvania &c three hundred pounds a year for her natural life and for
her care and charge over my children in their education of which she
knows my mind as also that I desire they may settle at least in great part
in America where I leave them so good an Interest to be for their Inheri-
tance from generation to generation wch y e Lord preserve and prosper
Amen. W m Penn [l. s.J

[ l Mr. Richard Preston, who in the letters of his cotemporaries is styled the
" Great Quaker," immigrated to Maryland in 1 Go with Margaret his wife and
Richard, Samuel, James, Margaret and Noamy his children, and was in the
same year appointed " commissioner of the North Side of Pautuxent." (Provin-
cial Land Records, Liber A B & II, fol. 139-40.)— Wm. Francis Cregar of An-
napolis, Md.]

3 Nov™ 1718°

Appeared personally Simon Clements of the Parish of S* Margaret
Westminister in the County of Middl* Esq r . and John Page of George
yard in the Parish of S*. Edmund the King London Gent, and being sever-
ally sworn upon the holy Evangelists to depose the truth did depose and say
as x followeth Viz 1 : That they knew and were well acquainted with William
Penn late of Ruscombe in the County of Berks Esq r . deceased tor many
years before his death and in that time have very often seen him write and
subscribe his name to Writeings and thereby became well acquainted, with
his manner and character of handwriting and having now viewed and dili-
gently perused the codicill wrote at the end of his Will or republication of
his Will hereunto annexed beginning thus Postcript in my own hand as a
farther Testimony of my Love to my D r . wife &c. and ending thus, where I
leave them so good an Interest to be for their Inheritance from Generation
to Generation w ch y e Lord preserve and prosper Amen, and thus subscribed
W m . Penn, do verily believe the same to be all wrote and subscribed by
and with the proper hand of the said William Penn deceased.

S. Clement John Page.

Die p r d. — dicti Simon Clements et Johannes Page Jurat, de veritate
p'missorum coram me. W. Phipps Sur.

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190 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [April

Probatum fuit hujusmondi Testamentum apud London cum codirij
annexo coram venerabili viro Gulielmo Phipps Legum Doctore Surro-v
Venerabilis ei egregii viri Johannis Bettesworth Legum etiam Dor;
curia prsevogativa Cantuar. Magistri Custodis sive Comissarii le'jl!
coiistituti Quarto die mensis Novembris Anno Domini Miliesimo Septingem?i
decimo octavo Per Affirmacouem sive Deciaraconem solennem Hanna
Penn viduae Relictce dicti defuncti et Executricis unicce in dicto Testnri,'
nominata? cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium et singulorum bonorur;
jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti Declaracone praedicta in prase": .,
Dei Omnipotentis juxta actum Parliamenti in hac parte editum provisuq
de bene et fideliter administrando eadem per dictam Executricem prim
facta etc.

Decimosexto die mensis ffebruarii Anno Dm 1726 em*, cofno Johaw i
Penn Arm filio et adstratori cum Testo annexo honor etc Hanme Pen:;
Viduae deftae sum vixit Relictss extficis unicse et Legalome Residuaria>
nominata? in Testo dicti Gulielmi Penn deiti hen ad ad strand urn bona
jura et credita dicti defft juxta tenorem et effectum Testi Ipsius defti per
dictam Extricem modo etiam demortuam inadstrata de bene etc jurat

Tenison, 221.

Richard Penn the younger son of Sir William Penn, late of Wanstee*!
in the County of Essex, knight, deceased; 4 April 1673, proved 11 April
1673. To my dear mother Dame Margaret Penn forty pounds yearly
during her natural life. To my dear sister Margaret Lowther, wife of
Anthony Lowther Esq., fifty pounds to buy a ring or any other durable
thing, to wear and keep in remembrance of me. To said brother Anthony
Lowther thirty pounds (for the same purpose), also such two of my guns
and one pair of pistols as my dear brother William Penn shall appoint.
To the poor of Walthamstow in Essex, where I desire to be buried, ten
pounds. To George Ilomond, my servant, ten pounds. My will is that
my mother, my brother Anthony and sister Margaret Lowther aforesaid.
and her children, my said servant George and the coachman and footmen
of my said mother and brother and sister Lowther, and also their coaches
shall have mourning in such manner as my dear mother shall appoint. Also
I do give unto my loving sister Gulielma Maria Penn the sum of fifty pounds
in testimony of my love and affection unto her. And I do hereby con-
stitute and appoint my said dear mother the sole executrix of this my last
Will and Testament.

Wit : Richard Newman, George Hainan, Michaell Lee.

Pye, 49.
Mense Martii 1681.

Decimo tertio die Em*. Commissio Gulielmo Penne Armigero filio
naturali et legitimo MargaretJB Penne nug de Waltham Stow in Com.
Essex vid. defuncts heiltis etc Ad Administrandum bona jura et cred. dicue
defunctoe de bene &c vigori Commissionis jurat.

Admon. Act Book (1682) fol. 31. P. C C.

II anna Penn, widow, the Relict of William Penn late of Ruscombe iu
the County of Berks Esq r . ; 11 September 1718. Refers to husband's will,
bearing date 27 May 1712, and to the Trust created under said will as to
the disposal of all his lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, rents
and other profits, situate, lying and being in Pennsylvania &c, legacies to
his daughter Aubrey aud to the three children of his son William and to
their respective heirs, and the conveyance of all the rest of his said lands

1890.]

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and hereditaments in America to and amongst his children by the now
testatrix, his second wife &c.

All the said lands, tenements and hereditaments and personal estate shall
be divided into six (as near as may be) equal parts and portions, whereof
I give- and bequeath unto my eldest son John Penn and his heirs three
sixth parts or one full half, upon condition, and always subjecting the same
to that purpose, that he shall pay to his sister Margaret the sum of two
thousand pounds &c at her day of marriage or attaining the age of twenty
one years, which shall first happen; and the remaining half or three sixth
parts thereof I give and bequeath unto my three other sons, Thomas, Rich-
ard and Dennis Penn respectively and to their respective heirs, each one
sixth part of the whole divided as aforesaid. And if either of my said
children die before attaining to the age of twenty one years the part and
portion of such child or children so deceasing shall be equally divided
among the survivors.

"Wit : Susanna Perrin, Mary Chandler, Hannah Hoskin, Thomas Grove,
S: Clement.

On the 16 th day of February 1726 there issued forth a commission to
John Penn Esq., natural and lawful son and principal legatee named in the
Will of Ilanna Penn late of the Parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate, London,
widow deceased &c to administer the goods &c according to the tenor of
the will. Farrant, 4 ( J.

John Penn of Hitcham in the County of Buckingham Esquire; 24
October 1746, proved 13 November 1746. Personal estate in England to
William Vigor of London merchant. Joseph Freame, citizen and banker of
London, and Lascelles Metcalfe of Westminister Esq. as executors in trust
&c. also all such moneys, goods and effects as shall belong to me in Ameri-
ca which, before such time as my death shall be heard of in the City of
Philadelphia, shall have been collected and received by any receivers, col-
lectors or other agents there and shall have been actually sent or remitted
to any part of Europe or shipped on board any ship or vessel for sending
or remitting to any part of Europe or invested in goods, effects or bills of
exchange in order to be sent or remitted to any part of Europe on my own
account or jointly with my brothers, all the which matters last mentioned
and the produce of the same I will shall be paid to my English executors
and be considered as part of my English personal estate. To the same
executors all my messuages, land &c in and near to the City of Bristol and
in or near to the County of Gloucester, — all to be applied to the payment of
the necessary costs and charges in the execution of their trust, the payment
of the few debts that I shall owe at my decease, the charges of my funeral
and legacies &c

An annuity to my sister Margaret Freame. Ono hundred pounds to my
servant John Travers. for his faithful service. One hundred guineas to
each of my English executors. Legacies to old servants Thomas Penn and
Hannah Roberts; to Jane Aldridge wife of Henry Aldridge of White
Waltham, Berks. Provision made for the education and maintenance of
nephew John Penn. Mention of other nephews and nieces, viz. Hannah
Penn, Richard Penn and Philadelphia Hannah Freame, and brother
Thomas Penn. To nephew John Penn my share of the mannor of Per-
kassie, my tract of Liberty land and my High Street Lot (which private
and particular rights respectively I claim under some particular grant or
deed made by my late father or under the Will of my late grandfather

192 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [April,

Thomas Callowhill). To brother Richard Penn all my properties &c
in the Province of New Jersey in America (both in the Eastern and
Western Divisions of that Province which I claim under the Will of my
late father) and my said brother Richard to be executor for such parts of
my personal estate as shall be due, owing or belonging unto me in any part
of the said Province of New Jersey. My moiety half part of the ffee
simple and inheritance of the Province of Pennsylvania and the three
lower Counties of Newcastle Kent and Sussex upon Delaware in America
&c. &c. to my brother Thomas Perm for life, with remainder &c. to his
lawfully begotten sons, in order of seniority; then to brother Richard
Penn, with remainder to his sons John and Richard, with remainder to the
latter and his male issue, remainder to my niece Hannah Penn only daugh-
ter of said brother Richard, and to her male issue &c. &c. The next in
the line of entail to be sister Margaret Freame and her issue and niece
Philadelphia Hannah Freame &c. The next to be a nephew (of the half
blood) William Penn of Cork in the Kingdom of Ireland E^q., then to
Springett Penn his eldest son and his male issue, with remainder to Christiana
Gulielma Penn, the only daughter of the said William Penn. The next
in the line to be a grand nephew (of the half blood) Robert Edward Fell,
the only son now living of Gulielma Maria Fell deceased ; then a great
niece Mary Margaretta Fell, eldest daughter of said Gulielma Maria, then
another great niece Gulielma Maria Frances Fell the only other daughter
living of the said Gulielma Maria Fell deceased, &c. &c.

Brother Thomas Penn to be the executor for the personal estate in the
Prov. of Pennsylvania and the three lower Counties of Newcastle, Kent
and Sussex upon Delaware. Edmunds, 332.

Thomas Penn of Stokehouse in the county of Bucks Esq. 18 Nov.
1771. Appoints wife Lady Juliana Penn and son in law William Baker of
Bayford Bury, Herts, Esq. his executors for the personal estate, except in
America. Refers to an Indenture tripartite bearing date on or about 15
August 1751 and made in consideration of his then intended marriage. Be-
quests to James Hamilton Esq. the Rev d . Richard Peters and Richard Hock-
ley Esq. all of the city of Philadelphia, of certain lands in Pennsylvania in
trust &c. A bequest of twenty pounds per annum to M r Dirffield Williams
of Swansea, Glamorgan, mentions sons John and Granville Penn, daughters
Sophia and Juliana. Refers to a Family Agreement entered into between
the Testator and his late brother on or about 8 May 1732, 31 January 1750
and 20 March 1750. Appoints his nephew Richard Penn. then Lieut.
Gov 1 ", of Pennsylvania and Richard Hockley Esq. executors for that
Province &c. The will is dated 18 November 1771. Then follow codicils
dated 11 July 1772, 18 July 1772, and 23 June 1774. In the first he
speaks of having advanced his daughter Juliana in marriage. In the
second he bequeaths twenty pounds a year to M™ Harriot Gordon of
Silver Street, Golden Square, and ten pounds a year to Grace Armagh and
Mary Clarke. The will was proved 8 April 1775.

Alexander, 166.

[In 1871, James Coleman of London, published a valuable book compiled by
him entitled a " Pedigree and Genealogical Notes from Wills, Registers and Deeds
of the highly distinguished Family of Penn, of England and America," which
should be consulted by the reader of these abstracts. It contains a tabular
pedigree from William Penn of Miucty, an abstract of whose will is given
above to 1871. lie was the great-great-grandfather of William 5 Penn the foun-
der of Pennsylvania, through William, 2 Giles 3 and Sir William 4 Penn. The

1890.]

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volume contains the wills in fnll of William Penn of Minety and William Penn
the founder; and abstracts of Penn wills proved at the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, from 1450 to 1700, besides extracts from parish registers and other
interesting matter.

A friend writes ; "You might call attention to a pamphlet printed in Phila-
delphia, in 1870, entitled, 'Articles, Wills and Deeds creating the Entail of
Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties upon Delaware in the Penn Family.'
Gilpin's Pedigree of the Penn Family and Keith's ' Provincial Councillors' give
facts relating to the descendants of William Penn." — Editor.]

Richard Watson of the Parish of S* Margaret's, Westminister, in the
County of Middlesex, gentleman, 18 April 1685, proved 16 January 1685.
Brother in law Theodore Wilkins, of New Rosse, in the Kingdom of Ireland,
gentleman, and Elizabeth, Katherine and Michael Wilkins, his children.
I give & bequeath unto my late wife's son Robert Boodle, of Rapahanack
River in Virginia, the sum of one hundred pounds &c. ; but of the said
hundred pounds lie shall pay unto Mr. John Ward, of the parish S l Andrew,
Holbourne, in the County of Middlesex, taylor, all such money as is owing
to him for a suit of clothes made for him before he went to Barbadoes. To
Cicely Brandreth (my late wife's daughter) now the wife of William
Brandreth, of the parish of S* Margaret's, Westminister, taylor, &c. M r
Thomas Jones, of Westminister, apothecary. M" Elizabeth Plumpton, of
Westminister, widow, M rs Elizabeth Arnold, one of the daughters of the said
M" Piumpton, M rs Sarah Juxon, another daughter, and Alice Willey, niece of
M rs Plurnpton, Ellen Poole, M™ PJumpton's servant. My godson Hugh
Greene, son of M r Hugh Greene of Westminister, and his mother Elizabeth
Greene. Corporal Robert Lloyd in Capt. Littleton's troop. Brune Clench,
of S* Martins in the Fields, gentleman and Mrs. Katherine Clench, his wife.
William Webb, of Bell Yard, King St., Westminister. Madam Rosse.
Mrs. Harrard, of King Street, sempstrees. Messuages in Bexley, in
County of Kent, Willing, East Wiekham, Wooledge, Plumsted &c., given
and bequeathed to me by the last will & testameut of Sir Edward Brett,
bearing date on or about 22 December 1682. Sir Edward Brett, Knight,
late Sergeant Porter to his Majesty Charles II.

Administration, with the will annexed, granted 16 January 1808 [Vc]*
to George Hancock, of Basing hall Street, London, gentleman, as a person
named by and on the part and behalf of John Smith Esq., limited so far
only as concerns all the right, title and interest of him the said Richard
Watson deceased in and to a certain capital messuage, mansion House and
Farm, with the appertenances situate, lying and being in the parish of
Bexley, in the County of Kent, comprised in a certain term of one thousand
years and assigned to the said Richard Watson by a certaiu Indenture
bearing date 14 October 1673 &c. Lloyd, 0.

William Fenninge cf East Smithfield in the County of Middlesex,
mariner, bound on a voyage to Virginia in the Abigail of London, 17 Janu-
ary 1620, proved 7 July 1623. To my wife Margaret Fenninge all my
estate; but if she die before ray return, then to Timothy Bugby, of Strat-
ford-Bow, and Susanna his wife. Swann, 70.

Robert Smith, citizen and merchant tailor of London, 18 January 1622,
proved 1 July 1623. My loving wife and her children, my daughter Mary
Peate and her children, the children of my late daughter Judith Sowthacke,
uer daughter's children and the children of my former wives &c. My

* This entry is on the margin. — h. f. w.

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daughter Hannah, my only child unadvanced. My late religious, kind and
loving wife Alice Smith, moved me to give unto her grand child Edward
Parbury her daughter's son, iifty pounds at the age of one and twenty years.
I do give to him the said sum of iifty pounds and fifty pounds more, to make
up one hundred pounds &c. My said late wife Alice was charged by the
last will and testament of her former husband, M r Edward Peirson, to pay
unto Joane Dixon, his daughter, ten pounds yearly. To my cousins
Elizabeth Younge and Judith Beale, daughters of my late daughter Judith
Sowthack, twenty pounds, to be equally divided between them. To
Mary Ofielde forty shillings. To my daughter Susan Morse forty shil-
lings. To my cousin John Sowthacke all my books of "Presidents,"
Statute Books and other books and papers whatsoever which shall be in
the room now used for my office. To my loving father M r William
Palmer, for his pains as overseer, three pounds. To my daughter Hannah

V; Smith and to the heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten, forever,
all my lauds, tenements, rents, revenues, shares, profits and all other my
hereditaments whatsoever, with their appertenances, which I have, shall,
may or of right or in conscience ought to have within the country or
countries, lands, islands, places or territories called or known by the name
of Virginia, in the parts beyond the seas &c. &c. ; also in the Barmuthes or
Sommer Islands &c, my wife to enjoy the rents and profits during her life.

"*" The residue to my wife Judith Smith and my daughter Hannah Smith, one
third to my wife and two thirds to my daughter. My said wife to be the
executrix. My father, Mr. William Palmer to be overseer; and I desire
my daughter Mary Peate and her husband, my former wife's daughters and
their husbands and the children and childrens' children of all my said daugh-
ters Judith Sowthack, Mary Peate, Alary Ofield and Susan Morse and my
late wife's grand child Edward Parbury and all other friends &c. &c., that
they will hold themselves contented &c. "I beseech god give them of the
deaue of heaven and make them lively stones in the building of the churche
of Christ and true members of that bodie whereof the heade is Jesus Christ
the lord. I humblie and thankfullie confesse before my heavenly father as
Jacobe my greate grandfather accordinge to promise confessed with my
staffe came I ouer many Rivers (thoughe not Jordans) I had nothing when
I came from my fathers howse my cupp was emptie and now God hath
filled it and made it to overflowe he of his grace hath made me able and
willinge to give and leave somethinge to others."

Letters of administration issued 24 February 1629 to James Clarke,
natural and lawful brother, on the mother's side, of Hannah Smith, natural
and lawful daughter of the said liobert Smith deceased &c, the widow and
executrix having also deceased. Swaun, 75.

Kebby, (ante, vol. 43, page 426) :

[" Brother Henry Kebby " was of Dorchester, where he married Grizel -,

8 October, 1657, of course a second wife, by whom he had Sheberiah, born 2
December, 1G59; he died 10 August, 1661. Rachel Kebbey died 16 July, 1057.
If she were the first wife, her place was soon tilled. Henry Kebby's " daughter
Susan Sellick" was wife of David Seilick of Boston, who died at Accomack: in
Virginia in 1654. There were also Kebbys of Boston, whose names are in the
ninth Report of the Record Commissioners. — Wm. S. Appleton.]

Katharine Oxenbuidge (vol. 43, page 85).
# [Peter E. Vose, Esq., ofr Denny sville, Me., writes to the editor calling atten-
tion to the statement, quoted from Ellis's History of theEirst Church of Boston,
that Katherine Oxenbridge, whose will is printed on the page above referred to,

The Ancestry of Washington.

No. III.

The following letter appeared in The Nation for Feb. 13, 1890 :

To tiie Editor of the Nation: —

Sir : A few facts as to Ann Pope, the widow of Walter Brodhurst and the
second wife of John Washington, the Virginia immigrant, may interest some
of your readers.

* There is evidently some mistake in regard to the husbands of Katharine Oxcnhridge.
At the date of her father's will, 1641, she bore the name of Fowler, and all accounts

1890.] Genealogical Gleanings in England. 195

was a' daughter of Clement Throgmorton. " By my record," he writes, " Daniel
Oxenbridge married Katharine Harby, daughter of Thomas Harby, Esq., and
his wife Katherine Throgmorton, daughter of Clement Throgmorton, son of Sir
George and his wife Katherine Vaux, daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux and his
wife the widow Elizabeth Parr, grandmother of Queen Katherine ran*, which
last Christian name probably suggested the name of the daughters of the several
succeeding generations." It will be noted that Daniel Oxenbridge mentions in
his will his brother Sir Job Harby. His wife also names her brother Sir Job.

We find that Mr. Vose is correct. Mr. Ellis, in transcribing from Cooper's
Sketch of the Oxenbridges, lias omitted several words. The passage quoted b}'
us should read "Katherine the daughter of Thomas Harby by Katherine daugh-
ter of Clement Throgmorton."

The following account of the brothers and sisters of Rev. John Oxenbridge,
children of Dr. Daniel, is given in Mr. Cooper's sketch, which is a reprint of a
contribution by him to the twelfth volume of the Collections of the Sussex
Archaeological Society :

" The second son, Daniel, was alive at his father's death, but died before 2d
Nov., 1643; he was probably the merchant at Leghorn who left a legacy of
£1000 to the Parliament, on which an order was made 7th March, 1643-4, that
the amount should be paid by the executor to Mr. Spurstoe, to be applied to the
support of the garrison of Wembe, in Shropshire, and that a monument should
beraised to his memory; and an ordinance was passed and carried to the Lords
on August 7, 1G44. The third son, Clement, resided at Wimbledon, Surrey; and
in 1652 was a commissioner for relief upon articles of war. He was still living
as a married man with childreu when his sister Mary made her will in 1(186.

Of the four (laughters, Dorcas became the wife of Edmund Hunt; Mary, who
was baptized at Southern 16th August, 1602, married William Langhorne of
London, and of Putney, merchant; and the other two married three husbands
each, and men of celebrity : Elizabeth's first husband was Caleb Cockcrof t, of
London, merchant, buried at St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, 7th March, 1G44-5 ;
the second was ' Cromwell's dark Lanthorn,' Oliver St. John, Sol. -General to
Charles I. and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1648 to 16G0. who died
31st Dec, 1673; after which his widow took for her third husband Sir Hum-
phrey Sydenham of Chilworthy, near Ilminster, Somerset; she died there 1st
March, 1G7U-80, and was buried at Combe, St. Nicholas; KatfmHne married first
George Henley of London: secoudly Mr. Phillips, by whom she had one daugh-
ter, Katherine, v who married her stepfather's eldest son, the match being there-
by made double. 1 * This is the lady, — the famed Orinda, — ' who among her sex
has distinguished herself by her celebrated poems and letters ; she was bred in
the school at Hackney, and it must be owned was a woman of the times, and
loved poetry better than presbytery ' ; and her third husband w r as the parliamen-
tary general, Philip Skippon, whom she survived, and died 1678."

A pedigree of Harbie, signed by Katherine Oxenbridge's brother Job Harbie,
will be found in the Visitation of London, 1634, Harleian Society's Publications,
vol. 15, page 346.— Editor.]

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Her first husband, Walter Brodhurst, was in Virginia as early as lfi;"0, and in
1653 represented Northumberland County in the Legislature. There is a depo-
sition of his, dated August 30. 1055, in which he mentions that he was about
thirty-six years of a^e, and it is known that he was the son of William Urotl-
hurst of Lilleshall, Shropshire, England. Mr. Cralle of Northumberland Coun-
ty, Va., informs the writer that among the old records of that county there is a
judgment dated July, 1G5G, in favor of Walter Brodhurst, and that the next
reference to him is in a suit brought on September 30, 1059, by Anne Brodhurst,
relict and administratrix of Walter Brodhurst.

In a note on page 80 of the last (January) number of the New-England His-
torical and Genealogical Register, the writer alluded to the baptism in September,
1659, of a young son of John Washington, and suggested that he was a child
by the second wife — which is a mistake, as at this time she had not married
"Washington. When the widow Brodhurst became his wife, she had a son,
Walter Brodhurst, who went to England and lived and died at bis father's birth-
place. By John Washington she had a son Lawrence (the ancestor of Gen.
Washington), who was buried in 1697, at Bridges Creek, Westmoreland County,
Virginia. . Edward D. Neill.

St. Paul, Minnesota.

In the Archives of Maryland, vol. ii., edited by W. II. Browne, printed
at Baltimore in 1884, we find on page 483 the following data:

In the Maryland House Journal under date of May 20, 1676, is the
evidence of Capt. John Allen as to the murder of some Susquehanna In-
dians. He testified that about the 25th or 26th September (1675 of course), * ?
Major Truman commanded the Maryland forces in front of the Indian fort.
There was a parley about damage done to Mr. Hanson and others, which
these- Indians attributed to the Senecas. \

Then " came over Col. Washington, Col. Mason and Maj. Alderton, and
they likewise taxed them with the murders done on their side," which these
Indians also denied. On Monday, the witness " saw six Indians guarded
with the Mary landers and Virginians, and the Major, with the Virginia
officers sitting upon a tree some distance from them ; and after some while
they all rose and came towards the Indians and caused them to be bound
again, and the Virginia officers would have knocked them on the head, in
the place presently: and particularly Colonel Washington said, ' What
should we keep them any longer ? Let us knock them on the head ; we
shall get the Fort to-day ! ' *

" But the deponent saith that the Major would not admit of it, but was
over-swayed by the Virginia officers ; and after further discourse the said
Indians were carryed forth from the place where they were bound, and *

they knocked them on the head."

In the debates about punishing Maj. Truman it appeared in extenuation
that the execution had " the unanimous consent of the Virginians and the
general impetuosity of the whole field, as well Marylanders as Virginians,
upon the sight of the Christians murdered at Mr. Hinson's, and them
very Indians that were there killed being proved to be murderers both
of them and several other Christians." Also that Truman's crime was
" not maliciously perpetrated, or out of any design to prejudice the province,
but merely out of ignorance, and to prevent a mutiny of the whole army, \

as well Virginians as Marylanders."

state this to be the maiden name of the celebrated writer, Mrs. Katherine Phillips I

("Orinda"), whose husband was James, son of Hector Phillips, and whose father was John |
Fowler, merchant of London. — See Mcyrick's History of the County of Cardigan (1810),

101-3; Aliibone's Dictionary of Authors, vol. II. p. 1378. — Editor. I

1890.]

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Charles P. Greenough, Esq., of Boston, has kindly allowed us to make
an abstract of an original deed in his possession.

It is an indenture dated May 2, 1G74, between John Shotter of Mid-
hurst, co. Sussex, mercer, with his two children John, jr., and Elizabeth, of
the one part, and Robert Washington the younger, of Petworth, co.
Sussex, currier, of the other part. For £140 Shotter sells Washington the
messuage called the Haws (?) in Petworth, now occupied by one Robert
Washington the elder, adjoining the beast-market on the west aud South
street on the south.

We know that Robert Washington of Sulgrave had a son Robert by his
first wife, and that he also named a son by his second wife, Robert. Also
that in 1676, Mrs. Elizabeth Me wee, sister of Rev. Lawrence Washington
of Purleigh, speaks of her uncle, in her will, as then living. Possibly this
(uncle of the half-blood) will be found to be the Petworth man.

In The Nation for January 23, 1890, a letter was printed, signed *' C,"
from which we make the following extracts :

" In connection with this matter, the Washington pedigree, Mr. Frederick D.
Stone, the Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, has called my
attention to the following foot-note on p. 31, vol. i., of Lodge's recently pub-
lished Life of Washington ; it is as f ollow r s :

" The well-known account of the Baconian troubles, written by Mrs. Ann
Cotton in 1G76 (Force's Hist. Tracts, i.), is addressed 'to Mr. C. II., at Yarclly,
in Northamptonshire,' probably Yardly-Hastings, about eight miles from North-
ampton, and consequently very near Sulgrave Manor. At the beginning (p. 1)
the writer refers to the commander of the Virginians in the lirst campaign
agaiust the Indians as ' one Col. Washington, him whom you have sometimes
seen at your house.' This suggests very strongly that John Washington, the
first Virginian of the name, was of Northamptonshire, aud that he came from
or lived in the neighborhood of Sulgrave Manor, and that he belonged to that
family."

Here we have comtemporaneous evidence connecting George Washington's
great-grandfather with Sulgrave, or at least its immediate vicinity, which, of
course, strengthens Mr. Waters's pedigree.

In this pedigree he states the mother of the said John Washington to have
been a Roades. It may be worth while mentioning that the records in London
of the families of this name throughout England were examined and col-
lected by Col. Chester in the year 1^07, as he then informed me by letter.
This collection must be still among his papers; if searched, it might throw
some light upon the Washington ancestry, at least in its connection with the
family of Roades.

This suggestion proves to be probably unfounded. A farther examination
of the entire letter of Mrs. An. Cotton, shows that Mr. C. H. had probably
lived in Virginia, and we presume that he met Col. Washington there.

This tract, as printed in Force's Collection, vol. 1, was published, "from
the original manuscript, iu the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, of 12 Sept. 1804.

The writer is Mrs. An. Cotton of Q. Creek. The abbreviation is pre-
sumably not for Ann or Anne. It is addressed to Mr. C. H. at Yardley in
Northamptonshire. Besides the reference to Col. Washington, " him whom
you have sometimes seen at your house," I find the following points.

P. 4, line 22, the people ''settled their affections and expectations upon
one Esqr. Bacon, newly come into the Countrey, one of the Counsell aud
nearly related to your late wife's father-in-law"
VOL. xliv. 17

198 Genealogical Gleanings in England. [April,

P. 7, line 12. "The cliiefe men that subscribed it at this meeting, were
Coll. Swan, Coll.Beale, Coll. Ballard, Esq. Bray (all foure of the Councell),
Coll. Jordan, Coll. Smith of Burton, Coll. Scarsbrook, Coll. Miller, Coll.
Lawrance, and Mr. Drommond, late Governour of Carolina, ad persons with
whom you have been formerly acquainted." \

P. 9. "Brought the Governour a shoare at Coll. Bacon's, where he wa3
presented with Mr. Drurnond, taken the day before in Cheekahonimy
8Womp, half famished, as himself related to my Husband."

P. 10. There was " an Assembly convein'd at the Greene Spring; where
geverall were condemned to be executed, prime actors in ye Rebellion; as
Esqr. Bland, Coll. Cruse and some other hanged at Bacon's Trench ; Capt.
Yong at Cheekahominy; Mr. Hall, clarke of New-Kent Court; James
Wilson (once your servant), and one Lieft-Collonell Page (one that my hus-
band bought of Mr. Lee, when he hep store at your howse), all four executed
at Coll. Bead's over against Tindell's point; and Anthony Arnell {the same
that did live at your hoivse), hanged in chains at West point, beside severall
others executed on the other side James Kiver."

There is also (p. 11) a letter, unsigned, "to his wife A. C. at Q. Creek"
dated "' from Towne, June 9, '76." lie says " but the tother day that I did see
N. B. [Nathaniel Bacon] in the condition of a Traitor, to be tried for his
life." I

In the next succeeding Tract in Force's volume, — a Narrative of these
wars in 1675 and 1676, — it is said, p. 38, it is said that Bacon's followers
were scattered "around a third parcell (of about 30 or 40) was put into the
house of Collonell Nath. Bacon's (a gentleman related to him deceased, but
not of his principles) under the command of one Major Whaly, a stout,
ignorant fellow."

In the tract preceding Mrs. Cotton's, in Force's volume, entitled " Bacon's
Rebellion," we find a few items.

On p. 15 it says, "this young Nathaniel Bacon (not yet arrived to 30
years) had a nigh relation, namely Col. Nathaniel Bacon, of long standing
in the Councill, a very rich, politick man, and childless, designing this
Kinsman for his heir." |

Also on page 25, it seems to say, that young Bacon lived at Jamestown,
having " married a wealthy widow who kept a large house of publick enter-
tainment, unto which resorted those of the best quality." I regret to say
that Mrs. Cotton is not so easily placed. Mr. R. A. Brock writes from
Richmond, Feb. 17th:

" I regret that I have no notes identifying Mrs. Ann Cotton.

There are partial abstracts in our State Library of the records of Henrico and
of York Counties.

I find that in the former, at a Court held at Varian, Nov. 1, 1707, it was de-
termined that the Court meet for settling a private dispute at the house of
Charles Cotton in Charles City County.

In the latter, Oct. 27, 1660, will of "Elliam" [Ellen?] Wheeler, widow, be-
quests to her cousins Francis Hall and Mary Hall ; to Elizabeth Hooper ; to her
grandchild Amy Harrison, daughter of liobert Harrison: to her son Nicholas
Comins (including a gold seal ring) ; to John Cotton a gold seal ring.

I find the following grant of land : — John Cotton, 350 acres in Northampton
County (formerly granted Oct. S, 1(556, to Nicholas Maddilow and assigned to
John Cotton Jan. 28, 1662.— (Virginia Land Registry, Book No. 4, p. 570.)

bo in regard to Yardley, we are not entirely sure. There are in North-
amptonshire Yardley-Ilastings and Yardley- Gobions, and either may be the
one intended. The latter is a hamlet in the parish of Pottersbury about 6

1890.]

Genealogical Gleanings in England.

199

miles east from Sulgrave. In 1831 it had 123 houses and 594 inhabitants;
but two centuries ago it was of less importance, and was probably undistin-
guished from the main parish.

Yard ley-Has tings is a parish 12 miles north-east from Yardley-Gobions,
and 7 miles south-east of Northampton. In 1831 it had 193 houses and
1051 inhabitants. It is close to the border, at the point where Bucking-
hamshire and Bedfordshire meet, but is separated from Luton, co. Beds.,
by the whole width of that county.

Our hope now must be that the Northamptonshire antiquaries will en-
deavor to find out this Mr. C. H. of Yardley, and see if any Washington
was resident in that neighborhood.

I do not find in the Visitations of Northamptonshire, for 1564 and 1619
(London, 1887), any family at either Yardley. On p. 185 mention is
made of Edward Dome of Yardley-Hastings. On p. 98 is the pedigree of
the Harrisons of Gobion's Manor in the town of Northampton. The later
generations in 1G18 were

ROBERT HARRISON = Elizabeth Fitz-Geffrey.
of Stow, co. North 11 .

John.

1
Thomas =

of
North-
ampton.

= Elizabeth, dau. of
Francis Bernard
of Abington,
co. North™. ..-

Francis,
d. s. p.

Thomas, of

Gobion's Manor,

in the town of

Northampton,

1618-

1
Jonathan.

1
Joseph.

1 / 1
William. Benjamin

From Bridges' History of Northamptonshire I find that Gobion's manor
was about 300 acres " without the east-gate of the city." It was long held
by«the Turpins, but 5 or 6 Queen Mary, Robert Harrison had it and his
son Robert (?) succeeded. In 1621 Thomas Harrison sold it to the corpora-
tion of Northampton. Another branch of this family of Gobion also owned
Yardley-Gobions, but in 1541 that manor was annexed to the honor of
Grafton and has descended with that dukedom. It is possible that one of
these Harrisons may have settled at either Yardley, after the sale of Gobion's
manor.

I believe that the origin of the Virginia Harrisons is unknown. Meade,
i. 310, traces the family to Benjamin Harrison, born in 1645 in Southwark
parish, Va., who died in 1712, and says that Mr. Grigsby thinks he may
have been the son of Herman IT. or of John Harrison governor in 1623.
May it not be that the father was one of this Northampton family ?

At all events Mr. C. H. of 1676 had been evidently a prominent man in
Virginia, and some of the clues given by Mrs. Cotton may aid us in identi-
fying him.

I have already noted that Amphilis seems to be a family name in the
Neville family and its relations.

In the Visitation of Bedfordshire, article Faldo, p. 169, I note that
Thomas Neville of Cotterstock, co. North 11 (son of William N. of Holt)
had Jane married to Johu Chamberlain, and their daughter Amphilis m. 1,

200 Journal of Capt. Nathaniel Knight, [April,

Richard Faldo (who d. 1576), and 2, Thomas Sheppard of Maiden, co.
Beds. She had a daughter Amphilis Sheppard.

In the Visitation of Northamptonshire I have noted but one instance, viz.,
on p. 130. Richard Ravenscroft of Maidford in the county, 1619, married
Amphilis, dau. of Thomas Lawney of said place. The name is evidently
an unusual one, and most probably given only for family reasons.

William H. Whitmore.

[Mr. Faithfull, clerk of the Merchants Taylors' Company, London, England,
has sent us a copy of a privately printed pamphlet of 48 panes by Major W.
Newsome, II. E., published in June, 1879, ten years ago last summer, entitled:
*• Yorshire the Home of the Washingtons." The author drives his reasons for
believing that John and Lawrence Washington were from Yorkshire. Though
Mr. Waters's researches lead to a different locality, the genealogical information
contained in this pamphlet wiil be found interesting. — Editoii.]

JOUKNAL OF CAPT. NATHANIEL KNIGHT, SEN r .

Communicated by the late Charles Ira Bi:shnell, Esq., of New York city.*
SAILED from St. Martins, Mav 10 th 17G2, bound for'Salem, in the

Sloop Tryall, having in company five sail, viz.: Capts. Putnam, Gordon,
Harlew, Jones and Hubbard, all for America: on the 17 th at 9 o'clock, A.M.
saw one sail to windward, bearing down to Capt. Jones, the southernmost of
us, and he hauled his wind ; but at or about 10 o'clock I saw several guns
fired at Jones, and he struck to that sail, which afterward I found to be a
Spanish Privateer Sloop, of eight guns; and there appeared another sloop
as partners together: one of them gave chase after me, the other for Put-
nam: all the other vessels were out of sight to the South, the wind failing
me, which gave him so great advantage over me, that with rowing at 6
o'clock in the evening he was so nigh that he gave me several shots, and
still gaining on me, so that at 7 o'clock I was obliged to strike to him as a
prisoner; and he immediately sent his boat on board of me, with a number
of men who beat and abused my men shamefully with their hangers; and
the Prize master, taking my hat from my head, told me to go in the boat,
not allowing me to go down to my chest for anything: and so I went on
hoard the Spanish Sloop, the captain Christopher Gousalves, hailing from
Porto Rico with four of my men with me, and I continued on board on a
cruise until Sunday, May 23, when he landed me with my four men on the
West end of St. Martins, giving me my chest with one shirt and one old
coat, with two or three other small things, so that I thought ourselves well
off, although having at least ten miles to travel through mountains, rocks,
bushes, briars and brambles, without meat or drink, until we came to two
Negro canoes, after wood, bound for Simpson's Bay ; and I gave to one
negro all the money I had to carry us all down there, wdiere we arrived at
4 o'clock same night, then travelled on for Great Bay, and at last got to
Mistress Bennett's, when I was kindly received by her and the rest of the
inhabitants of that place, one and all lamenting my loss and not by words

•The late Mr. Bushnell intended to have accompanied this journal with an account
of Capt. Knight, and with annotations on the journal; but sickness prevented. — Editor.

1890.] Journal of Capt. Nathaniel Knight. 201

only, for Mr. Benjamin Gumbs, a Portuguese, gave me the offer of what
cash I might want, gave me also entertainment at his house and gave me
also a hat, two checked shirts, and two pairs of stockings, which I took
indeed kind from him a stranger too. On Monday, 24, Mr. B. Grumbs
told me if that he could buy a vessel he certainly would for me to go home
in to Salem, he begging me at the same time to consider his house my home,
saying if I did not he should take it greatly amiss, which kindness was much
more than either of my own countrymen offered unto me. My old friend
White asked me to go home with him, but never either offered me money
or clothes, nor asked if I wanted any until one day I asked him if he
had disposed of all his cash; then he told me if I wanted money he would
lend me till I got home; he might have known I had lost and had nothing
to cheer my sight when I got there in the line of money. However I con-
tinued on those until Friday, 28 of May, when Capt. Israel Ober came
from St. Eustatia, in a sloop, which he and my old and long tried friend and
neighbor, Capt. Webb had bought, and he gave her to me to go home in
and I took charge of her with two of my men and the boy. Likewise Mr.
Edward Stacy gave me a ham of bacon and Mr. William Barton gave me a
chest, and the widow Bennett gave me victuals and lodgings at her house, to
the amount of p 8 . 10 of eight, which I took as a great kindness unto me. So
that the kindness which I received from strangers was more than I could
ever expect or think, and I here write them all that 1 may bear them in
my prayers to the Almighty throne, for their sympathy in the troubles of
a poverty stricken stranger ; and as to Capt. Webb he gave me all the
money I wished for. But I try to give to all due thanks for what favors
they did or offered unto me. At this time Capt. Allen of Cape Ann
offered me one hundred silver dollars: I could not for my feelings return
him proper thanks for his kind offer but I did without his money, good
man! for — great and enduring thanks to Almighty God — I have still got
health and strength, and am still able to work for my living and have a
firm trust that through divine assistance and my own willingness I shall
always have a livelihood while I continue in this world. I now took on
board the sloop two friends, a load of salt, and fitted myself as well as I
could for sea again, and on Sunday, June 6 th there came into Great Bay an
English frigate, for all masters of vessels to come on board to receive sailing
orders which intended to go under convoy of the fleet: and on Monday,
June 7, the fleet appeared in sight to the amount of three hundred sail,
under the protection of Robert Swanton, in the Ship Vanguard, of 74 guns,
and one 50 gun ship, and a number of frigates; and we all got under sail
which were in Great Bay, and joined the fleet at 7 o'clock in the morning,
with a gentle gale at K. N. E., and kept company with them until Tuesday
the 15 th of June; at 10 o'clock at night I left company, with the wind to
the south, and falls of rain: at 11 I saw the lights of some of the fleet, and
heard several guns, not knowing what might be the cause. On Wednesday,
the 16, I saw three sails to the Eastward, which I judged to be White, Lee and
Stacy. I saw afterward two more sail on my passage, which I had reason
to think were privateers: one gave chase to me; but, as God would so
order it, night came on and I lost him, which rendered my mind more easy.
Afterward I saw no more sail until I got soundings at Georges Bank, on
July l 8t at 8 o'clock in the evening, 50 fathoms water, clear, sandy bottom,
and the wind at West, fair and pleasant weather. So I hope in good time,
if it please God to continue my life and health, I shall arrive at my long
desired home ouce more, in safety with a whole skin, all other things ex-
VOL. XLIV. 17*

202

Petition of Inhabitants of Kennebec Rwer. [April,

cepted, and thanks be to God I have been in very good health ever since I
left Salem, but have seen more trouble since the time of my sailing from
home, than in the most part of my life before; for from the first night of
my sailing my troubles began. Nothing but hard gales and lofty seas for
the most part of 14 days. The first day [ had a gale from W. S. W- so hard
that I was obliged to scud under bare poles for 16 hours, and was obliged
to clear my deck to save our lives, expecting every momeut to be swallowed
up in the deep: I hope I have had since thanks to God, who did not forget
us in our distress, and carried us through all our dangers; and after 42 days
we at last arrived at our destined port, having all well on board aud to
make up for our trouble, had a prospect of making a profitable voyage, but
fortune frowned on me; after disposing of my cargo at St. Eustatia, I sailed
for St Martins and loaded with salt, and on May 16, as before related, I
sailed for Salem and was taken and shamefully used by thi3 Christopher
Gonsalves of Porto Rico.

PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF KENNEBEC RIVER
FOR PROTECTION.

Communicated by William B. Thask, A.M., of Dorchester.

The following Petition was copied from the original in the Massa-
chusetts Archives, Vol. 136, pp. 270-280.

The same names, substantially, appear on a Petition, without
date, for a new County. Cumberland and Lincoln counties were
incorporated July 21, 1760.

f To His Excellency William Shirley Esq r Governour
Province of the J and Commander in Chief in and over said Province.
Massachusetts Bay j To the Hon blc his Majestys Council for the Same and
[ the Honourable House of Representatives.
Humbly shew

The Proprietors of that Tract of Land lying on both Sides of
Kennebeck River which was granted to the Late Colony of New-
Plymouth in their Charter, and afterwards by that Colony granted
to Antipas Boys & others, — Together with Sundry of the Principal
Settlers and Residents within the Limits of said Tract.
That there are now a Considerable Number of Settlers within said Tract
which are dayly making Improvements there. That your Petitioners the
Proprietors are accomodating them with Grants of Lands for their Encour-
agement and have at a Considerable Expence procured a number of Ger-
mans to Settle there, and are lying out Two new Towns at their own Expence
and appropriating Lands to be given Gratis to such as will come and Settle
within their Tract, and are determined to do all that lyes in their Power to
render it a well peopled aud Flourishing Settlement, so that Your Petitioners
humbly Conceive that in a few years this Settlement may become a Barrier
against both the French and Indians, and in ail other Respects of Great
Benefit to the Public, was it not that Your Petitioners the Settlers by Reason
of their Situation, and present weak State are exposed to the Indians & in
a defenceless condition against their Hostilities, and the Precariousness of
Indian peace gives such just Apprehension of Danger as extreamly dis-
courages Your Petitioners the Settlers in their Business and must tend to

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203

deterr others from Settling with them to the Manifest Obstruction of the
further peopling and Improving the Tract aforesaid in which the Interest
of this Province is greatly concerned — Your Petitioners beg Leave therefore
to Recommend themselves to your wise Care and Protection, and pray that
some Measures may be by your Wisdom concerted for their Safeguard and
Defence against the Enemies to whom they are exposed or otherwise Relieve
Your Petitioners upon the premises as to Your Excellency — and this Hon-
ourable Court shall seem proper, and Your Petioners &c.
April 22, 1755.

Jonathan Fox
Edw d Tyng
Nath: Thwing
Gershom Flagg ^
John Goodwin
Samuel Goodwin
Ja z Fox
John Tufts
Jonathan Reed
William Taylor
David Jeffries
Thomas Walley
Eleazer Harlow
Joseph Dowse
Isaac Foster
Joseph Winslow
John Winslow
Samuel Fowle
Habijah Weld
James Grace Settlers
, James Cunningham
John Wright

Ma
Joseph J Buber

mark
his

Martyn ft Hay ley

murk
his

Michael X Thornton

mark
his

-r John Oliver

v mark

^Ephraim Oliver
Alexander Campbell jun
Jacob Duer
Daniel Savage
Charles Snipe
William Chism
William Stinson
Joseph Paine
Michael Mai com
Allen Malcom
Thomas Foott

W m Cooms
mark

Jacob Wendell
Edward Winslow
W m Brattle
Ch* Apthorjx"
Thomas Hancock
Robert Temple
Will'" Bowdoin
Rich d Foster
Silv. Gardiner
James Pitts
James Bowdoin
Benj n Pollard

his

George -J- M'Gletton

mark

Patt Drumond
Thomas Williams
Alex. Campell
William Bryen
Sam 11 Hinkiey
James Thompson
ebenezer Hinkiey
Nathanel Berry
Nath 11 Larrabee
David Dueling
George Harward
William Vincent
Joseph Lankester
Shubel Hinckley
William &eed
John Trel [?]
John SpauMing
James Howard-?
John Howard '
Samuel Howard
Moses Way moth -
Silvenus Whitford

David Joy

John M'phetres
Philip Call
Philip Call jun.

his

John H Herring

mark
Thomas Means

204

p£tition of Inhabitants of Kennebec River. [April,

?
I

Townsend Smith
Ralph Kendall
John Cheney
Benjamin Kendall
Elias Cheney
Andrew Reed
William Montgamry
David Reed
Robert Montguinry
John Wyllie

his
Alex dr + Ersking
mark
his

Tho" 8 Storer

mark

Robert Montgamry jun

his

Simon X Eliot

mark
Morgan Caffry
Robert M'Gathry

his

Tho')(Selley

mark
his
James W Young

mark
Will m Kent
David Love
Patreck Rodgers
John M'farland
^ohn M'farland jun
John Larmond
James Huston
William Huston
William Jones
Michael Jones
William Jones junier
Richard Jones
Anthony Chapman
Ichabod Smith
John Wadleigh
William Blackston
Joshua Smith
Lemuel Perkins
John Rollings
Samuel Hall

his

Ichabod X Linscott

mark
his

Stephen X Hosdon

mark

Elisha Clark
Samuel Hardie
William M'Cleland
Nath 11 Winslovv

Nathaniel Winslow junr
Kenelm Winslow
William Rackleff
Elisha Winslow
Alex r Nikels
Alexander Nikels juner
John Nikels
Henry Little
James Clark
John Balentin

his

Thomas T Murphy

mark

Peter Peterson
William Clark ^-~-
James Clark Ju r
John Cuningham -
Joseph Anderson
Samuel Anderson
James Hodg
John M'Near

David Given
his

James I IV Forister

murk

Joseph Dacker [ ? ]
Joshua Silvester
James Day

William W Hilton

mark
John Deker

his

Rogelsj R C Colbee

mark

John Gray
James Grant
William Groves
Elisha Kenny
Robert Lambert
John Tornson
Nathanel Ranlet
Elijah Grant
Ephiram Grant
Andrew Grant
Sheribiah Lambert
John Decker the 2 Juner
John Sutton
Sam 11 Trask
Ebenezer Gove
Joseph Hodsden
William Boyinton
Samuell Trask jr
Sam 11 Chapman
George Gray
Robart Hooper

1890.] Petition of Inhabitants of Kennebec JRiver.

205

Joseph Tayler
Caleb Boyinton
moses Gray
Joseph Young
Joseph Young jr
John Perce
John Rowell
John Carlton
Samuell Blanehard
Daniel Lankester
Ebenezer Smith
Jonathan Preble
— — Daniel in'faden
Thomas Stinson
Joshua Farnam
Edward Savage
William Gilmor
Thomas Stinson jr

his v

John -f- girdy

mark
Isaac Savage

his

Jams X Stinson

mark
William Pumory
Miles Goodwin
Ezra Davis
James Whidden
Lazarus Noble
Timothy Whidden

Will 1 * + Reed

mark
Samuel Allen
William Malcom
Tobias Ham
Joseph Ewing
Alexander Ewing
Charles Robertson
Benjamin Thompson

his
William Mustard

mark

Alexander Potter
James Potter
John Malcom

his

Robert R Dunlap

/mark
John Dunlap

his

Joseph -|- Jack

mark

Joseph Smith
William Speer
Robert Speer jun
Robert Speer

his
James -f- Newbury

mark

James Duning
John Phelan
John Martine
John Williams /
Robert Dening
- James Douglass
Will™ Woodside
W m Woodside jun
James Wooden
Ebenezer Standwood
Judah Chase
Sam 11 Standwood
David Stanwood
Thomas Stanwood
Will m Standwood
John Reed
William Ross
John Smart
James Elott
Andrew Eiiott
Robert Smart
Thomas m'gregor
Nehimiah Ward
John Given

his

John Orr

mark

Samuel Clark
James Henry

Wil^M'/ness

mark

John Starbird
Tho 8 Skofield
William Simpson
Abijah Young

his

Joshua X Cromwell

mark

John Malcom

his

John X Bunker

mark
Alexander Willson
Robert Willson
Hugh Willson
Robert Giveen
John Mallett
James Doyle
Nathanel Barns

his
John oo Sarrad

mark

Wait Wefer
Jonathau Webber

206

Petition of Inhabitants of Kennebec Blver. [April,

his
Joshua Q Gray

mark

Jaines Gardner
Benj Bunker

Elisha Allen

his
Will™ S Alexander

mark

James Allexander
John Allexander
Edward Cuningham
William tarr
John Mathews
Isaac Hall
George Combes
John Jordan
Alexander Thompson
Cornelius Thompson
James Thompson
David Jenkins

his

Joseph T Thompson

mark

Isaac Snow
John Snow
Peter Comes
Abel Eaton

his

Silvanus X Cooms

murk
• his

Samuel L Williams

mark

Peter Combes Jun r
John Gatchell
Stephen Gatchell
• David Doughty
John Gatchell Junur
Anthony Combes
Anthony Combes jr
Timothy Tibbets
Moses Tebbets
Peter Woodward
Sepren Cornish

his

John X Aston

mark

his

John Cornish

mark

Joshua Lambert
Beniamin Whitney
Benj n Denlow

his

Cornalies ) Keaff
mark
his

Brant + Robinson

mark

Job Philbrook

Jonathan Philbrook
Jon n Philbrook juner

his
Patrick O Wals

mark

David Ti ufant

his
Samuel £ Melune

mark
his

Samuel X Melune juner

mark

John Soliven

his

"Robert -f- Sedgley

mark
his

Nathan el X Geleson

__ mark

Nath. Donnell

his
Tarrance T M'Maken

mark
his

Timothy 7" Rardan

'mark
Isaiah Crooker
Elijah Crooker
John Stinson

Phillip Hod"kins

his °
John W Onal

mark
Stephen greenleaf
Daniel Lankester

his

E!ihu-f- Lankester

mark

James Beveridge

his
John -J- Torp

mark
his

James X Thornton

mark
his

Matthew -j- Whelan

mark

his

Patrick -f- Murry

msrk

William Johnson
Simon Burtton
James Drumond
William Marshall
John Blethen Sen.
John Blethen
Franses Wyman
Nicholas Hideout
William Hideout
David gustin
his

Andrew A Bennett
mark

1890.] Petition of Inhabitants of Kennebec River,

207

his
James -f- Newbury

mark.

Cornelius hall
Benjamin Pumeroy
- Samouel Wels
James Blethen
Joseph Mackentir

his

Josiah W Day
mark
his

Stephen -f- Day

mark
his

William X Kerday

mark

Francis Wyman jari 1
Nathalie} VVyman
Arthur Percey
Thomas Percey

his

Timothy -f- Ruorsk

mark

Samuel Ilinkley

James M c f'aden

— • John M c faden

Matthew mcKinney
George mcKinney

his

John -f- F iaQ

•mark

James M'faden jun r

his

Timothy -f- Dunton

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John gray
Rieard Greenleaf
' Samuel greenleaf
^aSimon Crosby
■ Joseph Greenleaf
Daniel Gray
Aaron Abbot
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John X Getchel

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his

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mark
his

Isrel -J- Hunewill

mark

James Savage

his

Daniel vv McKenney

mark

Solomon walker
Moses hilton
James Johnston
Phill: White

Obadiah Call
Phinehas Parker
William Sewall
William Philbrook
William Sproul
James morton
James Crocker
Robert Sprouel
James Sprouel
John mcKown /\

his

Cornelis Thornton

mark
his
John Dan

mark
his

Thomas T Ilutchinsons

mark
his

Ringin go Erskins

mark

James Miller
Walter Cean
Joseph fowles
Samuel Wethuan
Charles Glidden

Samuel Kelley

his J

John D Speed

mark
his

George Calwell

mark

Francis young

his

George ^- Clark

mark
John Hiscock
Richard Hiscock
Elisha Winslow

his

Cornelious Jones

mark

Joseph Ilussey
Thomas humphrys
John m'Failand
Ephraim M'Failand
Samuel M'Cobb
John Beath
William Moor
William Fullertown
William Fullerton Juner

his

Walter W Beath

mark

Andrew m'Farland
Robert Wylie
William Wylie
Andrew Reed

208

Notes and Queries.

[April,

Charls Blagdon
Samuel Barter

his

James -(- Brewer

mark

Samuel Burter jr

his

James -j- Brewer juner

mark

John Or
Daniel Leneken

his

Joseph -)- Leneken

mark

[The foregoing petition contains upwards of 400 names. Liberty
been taken, in one or two instances, to change the order in the list, and
also to substitute, in a few cases, the signs -j- and X for the apparently
fanciful characters, not easily reproduced in type, which are sometimes used
in the original petition. — w. b. t.]

Benjamen X Linnaken

mark
his

Clarke X Linnaken

mark

Thomas Partridge
William hekes
Joseph Wittum
James Stinson
John Leeman
Robert Foy
Ebenezar Leeman

has

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Notes.

Wells. — In the October number of the Register there appeared some errors
which should not be allowed to stand, and mislead future students in genealogy,
who look upou your work as authority. In the valuable paper upon " Inscrip-
tions in Colchester Burying Ground," the -writer continues some mistakes from
Savage, and incidentally makes some new slips. With your leave I will review
his record of the children of Thomas 2 Welles, on page B59, make some correc-
tions, and add notes to make the record more full and useful.

This Thomas Wells was son of Hugh Wells, who came from co. Essex, Eng.,
about 1635, with wife Frances and at least four children. — Thomas, Hugh, Mary
and John. He settled in Wethersfield, where lie died about 1045. Wid. Frances
became second wife of Thomas Coleman. They removed to Hadiey with her
sons Thomas and John in bSGO. John- settled on the Hatfield side, married

Sarah ■ , had nine children, and died Oct. 18, 1692. Thomas married, May,

1651, Mary, b. 1631, dan. of Win. and Mary Beardsley of Stratford, Ct., and
died in 1676, leaving good estate in Hadiey and Wethersfield, and a house and
lands in England. His widow m. June 25, 1678, Samuel Belding of Hatfield,
and died Sept. 20, 1691, The children of Thomas and Mary are the family
under consideration.

ii.

Hi.

IV.

Thomas, b. 10 Jan. 1652; d. in Deerfteld, 1601." He was a volunteer
under Capt. Holyoke at the Fails Fight, May 19, 1676; settled in Deer-
field. 1682; was commissioned ensign in the militia by Col. John
Pynchon. July 5, 1686; made lieut. of the " Standing Forces" by Gov.
Andros, Feb. is, 1686-7 — \\ hen he made up his own little private army —
but, Wells took sides against Andros in 1688, and was representative
from Dcertield in the " People's Legislature " in 1689; was military
commander in Decrlield from 1686 to his death in 1691. He m. Jan. 12,
1672-3, Hepzibah, clau. of William Buel of Windsor. They had eight
children. June 6, 1693, wid. Wells and two children were tomahawked
by Indians and the family was broken up. Widow Wells m. (2) Feb.
17, 1699, Daniel Belding of Deeriieid; was taken prisoner when the
town was sacked in 1701, and killed on the march to Canada.

Mauy, b. 1 Oct. 1653." She died in childhood.

Sarah, d. young." She was b. May 5, 1655 ; m. April 3, 1673, David
. Hoyt, a Deeriieid settler of 1682. Hoyt was captured in 1704. and
perished by starvation on the march to Canada. His wife died before
this event.

John, d. young." He was b. Jan. 4, 1657,

! '

1890.] Notes and Queries. 209

" v. Jonathan, of Springfield, d. 173'J." He was born about 1050 ; was never
of Springfield; was with his brother Thomas in the Falls Fight, and is
known hereabouts as the "Boy Hero" of that ailair. With Thomas
he came to Deerlield and succeeded him as chief military officer; was
in command Feb. 20, 1704. He was the first Justice of the Peace and
Wiis the leading inan in town for many years; d. Jan. 3, 1738-0. He
m. 1st, Dec. 3 or 13, 1G82, Hepzibah, dan. of George Colton of Spring-
field; m. 2d, Sept. 23, 1008, Sarah, wid. of that Joseph Barnard of
Decrfield who had been killed by Indians in 1005.

" vi. John, b. 1000." He was a tailor; was drowned Jan. 20, 1070-80.

"vii. Samuel of Northampton." He was b. 1002; m. Dec. 11, 1084. Sarah,
dau. of Nathaniel Clark of Northampton. He d. Aug. 0, 1000. His
wid. and only son Samuel, settled in Hartford.

" viii. Mary." She was b. Sept. 8, 1004 ; m. 1st, Aug. 10, 1082, Stephen Belding
of Hatfield, son of her step-father; she m. 2d, Jan. or May 2, 1723,
Joseph Field, and d. in Northtield March 15, 1751.

"ix. Noah, b. 20 July, 1000; m. Mary, prob. dau. of Daniel White of Hadley,
&c." Daniel White was of Hatfield, and the question of tin-; marriage
is not yet settled. Noah was of New London 1001 ; of Decrfield 1004 ;
of Colchester as early as 1700. The writer gives a fuller account of
the line of Noah than I have before seen. I will only add that " David,
1). 10 Sept. 1723," son of this second Noah, settled in Shelburne, Mass.,
in 1772 ; was a revolutionary Col. and ancestor of the Shelburne and
Rowe Wells's, one of the latter being Judge John Wells of the Supreme
Court, late of Brookliue.

"x. Hannah, b. 4 July, 1008." She m. July 7, 1687, John White of Hatfield,
and d. Dec. 13, 1733.

"xi. Ebknezeb, b. July 20, 1000, &c." He followed his two brothers to
Decrfield, but returned and d. in Hatfield. He m. 1st, Dec. 4, 1000,
Mary, dau. of Sergt. Benjamin Waite of Hatfield, the " Hero of the
Conn. Valley;" 2d, Aug. 15, 1705, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Smith, wid. of
that John Lawrence who was killed at Brooklleld in King William's
War. Six of his seven children settled in Deerfield, and this region
is full of his descendants.

"xii. Daniel." The entries of the birth and death of Daniel are wholly in
error, and doubtless recorded by mistake iu the wrong register. There
is no room for a Daniel here.

" xiii. EriiiiALM," &c. He was b. April, 1071 ; m. Jan. 23, 1000, Abigail, dau. of L ..' •' ■■ >
John Allis of Hatfield, a half-sister of his brother Samuel's wife; was ^

of New London 1007, soon after of Colchester. I have no knowledge hi . H
of his family beyond what is here found. V "■ ^ ,

What I have here given is mostly from original sources. ' « * " v

JDeerJield, Mass. George Sheldon.

Adams. — The following obituary and record were found in an old Scrap-book.
The obituary was "written" (copied?) in April, 1822; the record is in the
handwriting of the late Mr. Edwin Forster Adams of Charlestown, and probably
was made about fifty years ago. Both are printed verbatim.

The Rev. David Stearns graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1723,
with Governor Belcher and Judge Edmund Trowbridge. He died in 1701.

The Rev. Zabdiel Adams, who died in 1801. graduated at Cambridge, in the
Class of 1750. with Governor Trumbull, Paine Wingate and Samuel Alleyne Otis.
His eldest son. Zabdiel Boylston Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1701, and died
17 February, 1814; and his younger son, Henry Adams, born 13 May, 1770, was
one of the Class of 1802, which included, among other distinguished men,
President William Alienor* Bowdoin College, James T. Austin, the Rev. Dr.
John Codman, Prof. Levi Frisbie, Samuel Hoar, Governor Levi Lincoln and
Leverett Saltonstall. Henry Adams died in Somerville, 13 Nov., 1802, having
been thrice married. His son, Mr. Edwin Forster Adams, married 18 August,
1835, Caroline Matilda, youngest daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Leach) Webb,
and died in Charlestown. Mass., 10 August, 1871. (See Register, ante, vii.
40-43; Wyman's Gewalog-ies and Estates of ChuHestown, pp. 10, 11, 14. 200 and
353; Allen's American BioyrapMwl Dictionary, article 2. Adams; Forster's

VOL. XLIV. 18

210

Notes and Queries,

[April,

Pedigree and Descendants of Jacob Forster ; and Bcllows's Historical Sketch of
Col. Benjamin Bellows, Founder of Walpole, N. II.) LLeniiy II. Edes.

" Died at Lunenburg March 1st 1801, the Rev d . Zabdiel B. Adams, Pastor of
the church in that town.

Few clerical characters have obtained so much celerety [celebrity] as the
Rev d Gentleman whose death is here announced, A few indeed have equal pre-
tensions to so great a share of popularity; for it is very uncommon to liud
united in the same person so much knowledge, learning, genius and literary
tastes as he possessed.

In the composition of his sermons his style was pure and elegant; and
although he was fond of treating his subject copiously and was generally diffuse
and luxuriant, yet from zeal for what he considered important truth, and an
ardent desire to propagate them, he was often remarkably forcible and vehement.
In these instances he appeared more like an orator speaking from the impulse
of the moment than like a lecturer reciting the cool reflections of his retired
hours ; and he poured himself forth with the rapidity of a torrent.

In the discharge of his professional duties he was both punctual and assiduous,
and while he endeavoured, by the mild precepts of the gospel, to engage and
confirm others in the practice of the social virtues, he exhibited in himself a
distinguished example of charity and benevolence, untainted by detraction,
ingratitude or any of those meaner vices, which so often unprincipie humanity.
In his intercourse with the world, no man had cleaner hands : integrity, open-
ness, candour and sincerity, are virtues which shone so conspicuously in every
part of his behaviour that even his enemies (if he had any), must allow him^to
have possescd them in an eminent degree.

In private life, where he could not long dissimulate, and where therefore his
character may be marked with the most precision, he appeared to eminent advan-
tage, for he was received in his own family as a friend, loved as a companion,
respected as a teacher, and revered as a guardian and benefactor. Free and
hospitable in his disposition, he received and entertained his friends, with cordial
satisfaction, and met the face of the stranger with gentle greetings. He sus-
tained a long and painful illness, with perfect resignation: he waited the
approach of that important hour which was to decide his hopes, and his expec-
tations, with noble constancy, and at the age of sixty-one years (thirty-seven of
which were devoted to the work of the gospel ministry) he closed a very
useful and honorable life, to join the band of kindred spirits in the heavenly
world."

The Character of Rev d Z. B. Adams.
1801.
Written by Henry A. Adams,
April— 1822.

II.

June 6. 1765. Rev 4 . Zabdiel Adams was married to Elizabeth Stearns daughter
of Rev d David Steams.— 1806 Jan r y 1^ Henry Adams their son was married to
Susan Forster daughter of Jacob Forster. [Charlestown Church Records give
this date 1 January, 1807.]

Elizabeth Adams died August 15 th . 1800.— Rev Zabdiel Adams died March 1 st .
1801.

Henry Augustus Adams, child of Henry and Susan Adams, died at sea on his
royage from Jamaica to Cape May, with cramp in his stomach, Jany 31 Bt 1823
aged 15 yrs. 6 m's & 17 days.— Sailed from Boston Oct. 1G. 1822. in Brig Sarah
Ann.

George Bellows Adams, son of Henry & Susan Adams, died at Asburnham,
Mass. aged 15 yrs. 10 ms & 17.— died May 17 th 1827 or 28? [Born 24 July, 1812.]

Susan xVdams, wife of Henry Adams died at Lexington Mass. Jan^ 12 th 1S34.

Henry A. Adams, born July 13 th 1807. — Edwin Forster Adams, Oct. 7 th 1809.
George Bellows Adams July 24 th 1812.

Elizabeth Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams,- born March 22 d
1766.— Mrs. Snow.

1890.] Notes and Queries. 211

Ann Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born June 1«* 1767— Ann

Cunningham died Aug st 24 th 1798.
Hannah Adams— daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born May 25. 1769.

Hannah Cunningham died July 6. 1840.
Zabdiel B. Adams— son of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born Aug 1 " 25. 1770. —

Z. B. Adams died Feb/ 17. 1814.
Lucy Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born Aug st 23 d 1772. —

Lucy Adams died Nov r 22 d 1775.
Mary Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born July 17 1774. —

Mrs. Bellows. [Mother of Judge Henry A. Bellows of Walpole and Con-
cord, N. II.]
Sarah Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born April 2 d 1776. —

Sarah Hosmer died 1804.
Katharine Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born Nov 24.

1777.— Katharine Kimball died May 20. 1822.
Henry Adams — son of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born May 13. 1770.
Frances Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, born Jan-* 25. 1731. —

Mrs. Houghton.
Abigal Adams — daughter of Zabdiel & Elizabeth Adams, boni Dec r 7. 1783. —

Abigal Dcvens— died Sep r 8. 1821. [Wife of David Devens of Charlestowu,

Mass,] ~ -

Jacob Forster died Sept* 1 st 1838. ae 74.— Chs. F. Waldo died Aug st 30 th 1838.—

54 yrs. [He married Sarah Vose Forster, daughter of Jacob Forster. J
Joseph Bellows— died March 21. 1821. aged 50 yrs.

Robert Williams of Roxbury. — Savage, when treating of Robert Williams
of Roxbury, writes, he " came, it is said, from Norwich, co. Norfolk," and,
speaking of his w^ill, " names gr. ch. Deborah Totman, and Eliz. Robinson, for
wh. I find not the mos. so that w t c are uucertain, whether he had two ds. m. or
three. His eldest d. Mary m. Nicholas Wood : w. Eliz. d. last of June, or 28
July 1674, by strange carelessness in the town rec. call. 80 yrs. old, when she
prob. was a dozen yrs. younger." As Robert W. was so careful to mention
two mysterious granddaughters, it is strange that he did not mention some of
the numerous children of Mary (Williams) Wood, if she were his daughter.
That she was some connection is shown by Robert 1 aud Samuel 2 Williams being
of those who inventoried the estate of Nicholas Wood. The second wife of
Nicholas was named Anna.

The only Deborahs of the Totman family in either Plymouth or Massachusetts,
at the date of the will of Robert Williams, w^ere Deborah (Turner) Totman,
wife of Jabez Totman and daughter of John Turner of Roxbnry-Medfield, and
her daughter Deborah, then 12 years old. The mother of Deborah Turner was
married to John Turner in 1648, and was his ^e.cond wife, as the daughter
Elizabeth was born to a first wife who died in child-bed. according to the church
records, or ten days after her daughter's birth if we follow town records. John.
Turner's second wife was Deborah, and probably Deborah Williams, eldest
daughter of Robert, as all her children have names that are found, at least
twice each, in the children ami grandchildren of Robert, viz. : — John, Isaac,
Samuel, Mary, Sarah, and Hannah.

The Elizabeth Williams who owned the covenant, or was admitted to the
Roxbury church in 1614, was a daughter of Robert and not of his son John, as
John could not have been the son of Robert, if he had been old enough to have
had a daughter admitted in 1644.

Savage was right in subtracting 12 years from the age of Elizabeth, wife of
Robert, and family tradition, that made him 99 years old at date of death, was
equally wrong with the record that made her 80. If we will turn to the Register,
xiv. p. 325, we shall find that the mutilated entry, there given, substantiates
the ages of Robert and Elizabeth as conjectured by Savage; the tradition that
they came from Norwich, co. Norfolk, that their children were Samuel, John,
Elizabeth, and Deborah, and sets at rest the idea that Mary Williams was a
daughter. We evidently have the two wives of Nicholas Wood as connections
of Robert, and not daughters. Of those who w r ere examined on April 8 and
April 11, 1637, two were made freemen the same day as was Robert, and four,

212 Notes and Queries, [April,

two months before him. All of them were from Norfolk Co. in the vicinity of
Norwich. The entry, as written, probably read :

" [April 8 th 1G37. The examination of Robert Williams] of Norwich in
Norif". corclwaynar, aged 28 years and [Elizabeth his wife, aged 27 years] with
4 children, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, and Debra [and two servants, Mary Wil-
liams] aged 18 yeres, and Anne Williams, aged 15 yeres [are desirous to passe
to Bostone in New] England to Inhabit!."

Bethlehem, Penn. Edward H. Williams, Jr.

Queries.

Baker— CirNNiNGHAM— Eord— TTawkes— Lamson— ruTNAM— Sloan.— Seve-
ral years ago the subscriber was requested by a vote of the Church of The
Harvard Church in Charlestown to complete, as far as possible, the early Regis-
ters of the Church, especially those kept by the Rev. Thomas Prentiss (II. C.
1811) and the Rev. Dr. James Walker, At the beginning of Dr. George E.
Ellis's pastorate, in 1840, he opened a new volume of Registers. In the Baptis-
mal Register he began to record the dates of birth besides those of baptism; y
and this custom has" been continued for half a century, till the present time./.''
The present representatives of all of the more than three hundred persons bap- .. „".
tized by Mr. Prentiss and Dr. Walker between 181(3 and 1839 have been found "• \
(except twelve belonging to the three families of Baker, Cunningham and Ford,
enumerated below) and the dates of birth recovered from family records of un-
doubted authenticity and recorded in the Registers. Besides the dates of birth of
the twelve persons just mentioned only twelve other dates remain to be recovered
to complete these Registers which are extremely valuable, since they cover a
period during which the Town Records of Births are most defective. The dates
last referred to will probably be secured in time, the present representatives of
those to whom tlu3 dates relate being in Europe or out of the State. All of
these twenty-four missing dates belong in Dr. Walker's Registers. The Regis-
ters of Mr. Prentiss are now absolutely complete. The Church will be grateful
to any person who will be kind enough to give any information, fact or hint,
hotnever trifling , as to auy or all of the members of the following named families,
such as the names and addresses of their present representatives, or the occupa-
tion, place of residence or personal appearance or habits of the persons them-
selves.

Boston, 17 March, 1890. Henry II. Edes, |

P. O. Box 14G3. Recorder of the Harvard Church in Charlestown.

Baker. — James and Mary T. Baker had three children baptized " at home " bv
Dr. Walker, 25 July, 1824 : William Cleveland Baker, James Perkins Baker and
Joseph Lee Baker. The full dates of their birth are wanted.

James Baker was in Charlestown as early as 10 August, 1819, when he bought
pew No. 97 in The Harvard Church, and removed to Boston about 1826. His
estate — "James Baker, late of Boston, merchant" — was probated in Suffolk,
No. 28,707. George Lee. master-mariner, of Boston, at the request of the
widow, petitioned for administrations Dee. 1828; the petition was continued
several times till 9 February, 1829, when it was granted; and 9 March, 1829, the
administrator reported that no property had come to his hand- or knowledge.
Lee's bond for $ 1,000 was signed by Jacob B. Comegys and by George I. Galvin,
lumber merchant on Otis's and Central Wharves, Boston, who married Baker's
widow in Boston 24 April, 1829. George Lee, administrator, and Mary T. «

Galvin, by deed dated at Roxbury 13 July, 1833, sold pew No. 97 to John
Sweetser and William Lund.

It is surmised that this family came from Belfast, Maine,. or its vicinity. i

Cunningham. — Calvin Cunningham's wife Mary was baptized and admitted
to the Church 2 February, 1823. Their son Charles had died here 2 February,
1822. Their son George was baptized 15 January, 1823, " in private because of
sickness; " their children Mary-Ann and Calvin were baptized 4 May, 1823; and
their daughter Lucy was baptized 29 October, 1824. 1

No trace whatever of this family has been found unless the Calvin Cunningham,
tallow-chandler, at the South end of Washington Street, who appears in the
Boston Directory for 1829, is identical with our parishioner. The full dates of

1890.] Notes and Queries. 213

birth of Maty Cunningham and her children, and the maiden name, parentage
and date and place of death of Mrs. Cunningham are wanted.

Ford. — James Ford's two children, Charlotte-Mary-Isabella and James-Benny
were baptized " in private" 5 April, 1822; and two others, Heloise and Helen-
Benny, were baptized " in private, at Boston," 1 July, 1821. The full dates of
birth of these four children are wanted.

Mr. Ford was a Scotchman introduced here by the Ruthvens, one of whom
married the late Mr. Robert Waterston. The Fords were in Charlestown only
two or three years. They kept a boarding-school for girls and received day
pupils in that part of the large double house on High Street subsequently occu-
pied by Paul Willard. The school-room was the lower front room. Mrs. Ford,
by one person called " a little Scotch woman" and by another a French woman,
in 1822, was apparently under thirty, her husband being much older than his
wife. She taught drawing, painting and music in the school. Their two
children were called "roily," aged about three, and "Jaggo," about one year
old, in 1822-23. Mr. Ford is described by one of his pupils as " short, tleshy,
peculiar and eccentric in manners and dress." He went daily to market in a kind
of pea-jacket, made of green-plaided woolen stuff, containing innumerable
pockets of all sizes in which he carried home his purchases. It was the custom
of Mr. and Mrs. Ford to bathe daily in Mystic river, even in very cold weather.
In 1823 they removed to Boston and opened an " Academy " on Mt. Vernon and
Olive Streets, but soon abandoned it. In 182ii Mr. Ford was in Augusta, Maine,
the pastor of the Unitarian Church. In North's History of Augusta he is called
" William Ford, a Scotchman;" but James Ford's Charlestown pupils insist that
he became a Unitarian minister. One of his parishioners in 1820 describes him
as " a good preacher, tall, amply developed and eminently conspicuous at all
times, which, united to his voice and manner gave rather a strong impression of
self-appreciation; but he was always affable, obliging and kind." Another of
his Charlestown pupils writes that the last she heard of Mr. Ford, he " had
gone South, I think to Baltimore, and was there a Unitarian minister."

"What was Mr. Ford's history after leaving Augusta and where are his descen-
dants? And were the Scotch pedagogue and the Scotch preacher identical?

Hawkes. — Susan Hawkes. daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Allen) Hawkes, died
in Charlestown 22 or 23 April, 18G7, aged 51 years, the wife of Joseph Hunneweli.
She was sister of the late Moses Hawkes, and is said to have been born in Saugus
in 18 1G. The full date of her birth is wanted.

Lamson. — Charlotte [T.] Lamson died in Arlington, Mass., 5 March. 1803,
aged 72. Her parents. John Lamson of Exeter, N. II., nud Sally Townshend of
Charlestown, Mass., were married in Charlestown G October, 1703. The daugh-
ter, a sister of Mrs. Nathan Pratt, is said to have been born in Exeter. The
full date of her birth is wanted.

Putnam. — Dr. Aaron Putnam's son Fitch-Poole Putnam and Elizabeth his
wife had a son Edward Putnam baptized by Dr. Walker 5 September, 1810,
Who became an Episcopal clergyman, and died in Vermont nearly forty years
ago, unless the clergyman was a second Edward born a year or two after 1810.
The full date of his birth is wanted.

Sloan. — Francis Sloan was baptized 1 July. 1827. His father of the same
name was a sail-maker at the head of Central Wharf, Boston, who lived on
Copp's Hill, where the son was born 1818-20. After the father's death the son
was taken into the family of his grand-uncle, Capt. Eenjainin Swift of Charles-
town. Francis junior had a sister. He lived at one time in Abington, Mass.
His preseut address is wanted, as well as the full date of his birth.

Hitchcock.— Luke Hitchcock took freeman's oath in New Haven, in company
with Edward Hitchcock, July 1, 1G44. Probably living in Wethersneld in 1G46.
He married Elizabeth Gibbons, sister of William Gibbons of Hartford. Family
tradition says that he settled first on our eastern coast. His children were : —
John; Hannah, born 1.645; and Luke, Jr., boru in Wethersiield, June 5, 1G55.

Wanted, the date and place of the first settlement of Luke in this country,
the date and place of his marriage to Elizabeth Gibbons, and the date and place
of birth of his son John and daughter Hannah.

Amherst, Mass. Mrs. Mary L. Hitchcock.

VOL. XLIV. 18*

214

Notes and Queries.

[April,

Addresses Wanted. — The Committee on the Rolls of Membership of tho
New-England Historic Genealogical Society wish to obtain the present ad-
dresses of the following corresponding members, and will be greatly obliged
to any one who will assist them :

1. James Carnahan Wctmore, author of the Wetmore Genealogy. Elected,
1861. When last heard from was in Ohio.

2. Rev. William Thomas Smithett, D.D., Episcopal Clergyman. Elected, 1853.
When last heard from was of Omemee, in the diocese of Toronto, Canada.

3. Henry Maine, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y. Elected, 18G2. Said to have
removed to Port Jervis, N. Y., but letters addressed there do not, apparently,
reach him.

Geo. Kuhn Clarke,
Chairman.

Full Names Wanted. — The undersigned wishes to obtain the fall 7iames of
the following gentlemen who were formerly members of the New-England
Historic Genealogical Society, and will be greatly obliged to any one who will
assist him. The date prefixed to the name is that of admission to the society.
1855 — Lewis H. Webb of Rockingham, N. C, later of Virginia. 1859 — Rev.
Denzell M. Crane of Boston, Baptist clergyman (died in South Acton Sept. 4,
1879). 1865 — George S. Rage of Brooklyn, N. Y., William S. Anderson of
Boston. 1866— Abel B. Berry of Randolph. 1867— James P. Bush of Boston,
William H. Osborne of East Bridgewater. 1868. — John P. Towle, architect,
of Boston. 1878 — Henry C Hay den of Newtonville.

Geo. Kuhn Clarke,
Chairman of Committee on the llolls of Membership.

Holmes. — John Holmes went from Portsmouth, N. H., in the fall of 1797, to
Jefferson, N. H., in company with William Ingerson, Samuel Hart and John
Marden, all of them having families with them at that time. Land was deeded
to John Holmes b*y Col. Joseph Whipple at Jefierson, and the next year the tax
list shows the names of John, George and Lazarus Holmes. An untrustworthy
family tradition says that "three Holmes brothers" came from England about
1750, to Portsmouth, with one Captain Whipple, and with whom they afterwards
went to Jefierson and obtained land there. There were Holmeses at Portsmouth
as early as 1699 ; the records of North Church and the town records both show
these. " Benjamiu, son of Lazarus Holmes, was baptized there Oct. 29, 1710. It
is extremely probable that the Holmeses at Jefierson were from the early family
at Portsmouth, and that the tradition about the three brothers coming from
England about 1750 has no foundation. Will any person tell me the origin of
the John Holmes who went from Portsmouth to Jefierson. in 1797.

Fort Custer, Montana. E. K. Upham.

Wright. — I am anxious to obtain some information on the following points,
for use in a genealogical work I am compiling.

In 1636-7, there came from England to Saugus, now Lynn, Mass., three broth-
ers, Anthony, Nicholas and Peter Wright. I wish a reference to find some
accouut respecting them, their arrival, name of ship, etc.

Subsequently, and about 1638-9, these three brothers removed to Sandwich,
Mass. They became quakers. From the old Quaker or Town Records of Sand-
wich, I wish to obtain the records of the marriage of two of these brothers,
Nicholas and Peter, and the dates of the births, &c, of their children. Where
can I now find these old records or obtain the information I seek?

Perhaps some reader may be able to give some information on one or both
these points. H. J). Pekrine.

58 William St., New York.

Salter. — Information is desired that will throw some light on the history of
the Portsmouth Salters. In Exoter may be seen a copy of will of John Salter
of Rye, Gent., dated May 12, 1752, " being advanced in years."

William Sailer of Boston left a will dated May 11, 1675, and refers to a legacy
to my son John " who was gone away."

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The Jersey Saltcrs have a tradition that several brothers, banished from Eng-
land after the accession of Charles II., landed in Boston, — where one remained,
and that Richard Salter settled in Monmouth Co., N. J., where as early as 1G87
he was a lawyer of marked ability and high social standing. In 161)5 he was
elected a member of the House of Deputies.

New York Historical Society. William T. Salter.

Henchman. — Daniel, the first of the family in America, is said to have had
six sons, the youngest being Daniel, b. 16 June, 1077. Was the latter the same
who went to Dorchester, S. C. ; and was he the father of Daniel, who in Jnly,
1730, sold all his interest in the lands of his Grandfather, Daniel Henchman, in
the township of Worcester? What became of Susannah, Jane and Mary Heiieh-
man/daughters of the first Daniel?

I should be glad to receive any information about the descendants of Daniel
Henchman in the male or female line. F. E. Bradish.

Waldron. — Richard Canney Waldron was a soldier in the Dover, N. II., Com-
pany in the expedition against Louisbourg, 1744-5. He was the father of Col.
Isaac Waldron who settled in Barrington, N. H., and who was born in 1747.

It is greatly desired to find any facts throwing light upon the parentage of
the said Richard Canney (or Kenney) Waldron.

East Boston. Geo. M. Bodge.

Williams. — Information will be thankfully received as to the ancestors of
Daniel Williams who married Lydia Abell at Lebanon, Conn., June 19, 1711, or
as to whether his father was Augustine Williams who resided in Kiilingworth,
Conn., about the year 1700. J. H. Williams.

293 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Replies.

Andre Fry (Register, xliv. 116). — The author of the query about this per-
son, who was a Canadian captive in 1713, may, perhaps, get a clew from the fact
that Adrian Fry was of Kittery, 1668-82, where he had land grants; and Tike's
Journal (N. II. Hist. Soc.) records the marriage of Adrian Frie and Mercy
Chapman, 8 June, 1705. c. e. b.

Historical Intelligence.

The American Folk-lore Society was formed about three years aero to
collect and preserve the "Folk-lore" of our continent, and especially of the
United States. Membership is open to every one who will forward to the
Society's treasurer, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., No. 104 South Fifth Street. Phila-
delphia, the sum of three dollars, the annual fee for membership. For this the
" Journal of American Folk-lore," a handsomely printed quarterly periodical, will
be sent them. It is intended that local branches shall be formed ; and the Phila-
delphia members of the Society have taken the initiative by creating the " Phila-
delphia Chapter of the American Folk-lore Society," a circular of which is
•before us: A schedule of topics which will be separately discussed at the
meetings of the Chapter is given in the circular. For further information
application can be made to the secretary of the Chapter, Mr. Stewart Culin, 127
South Front Street, Philadelphia, Pa. We wish the Society success.

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[April,

especially service under the U. S. government, the holding of other offices,
graduation from college or professional schools, occupation, with places and
dates of birth, marriages, residence and death. When there are more than one
christian name they should all be given in full if possible. No initials should be
used when the full names are known.

Drake. — The Eev. TV. L. Chaffin, of North Easton, Mass., has in preparation a
Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas I>rake, of Weymouth, Mass., who
died in 1092, and whose descendants settled in Easton, Taunton, Stoughton,
Sharon and Middleboro', Mass., and are now in many other places. - All mem-
bers of this family are earnestly requested to forward facts, dates and information
to Rev. Mr. Chaflln.

French. — John Marshall French, P. 0. Box 28, Milford, Mass., is collecting,
with the hope of publishing, the family history of William French, an early
settler of Cambridge and Biilerica, Mas3., and his descendants. He solicits the
cooperation of members of the family.

Lane. — The records of the Lane Family, collected by Dea. Edmund J. Lane
and the Rev. James P. Lane, both deceased, have been committed to the Rev.
Jacob Chapman of Exeter and the Rev. James H. Fitts of South Newmarket,
N. IL, to revise, arrange and complete for the press. Their experience and
ability will ensure a full and reliable genealogy. Descendants are recommended
to send their records and subscriptions to them early. The subscription price of
the work is three dollars a volume, or in that proportion, if the volume exceeds
300 octavo pages.

Street. — In the Register for October, 1879, we announced that Mr. Henry A.
Street of New Haven, Ct., had in preparation a genealogy of the descendants of
Rev. Nicholas Street. We are happy to announce that the work is now nearly
ready for printing. An association has been formed by the name of " The
Street Family Association of England and America," under whose auspices the
book will be published.,, Mrs. Mary A. Street of Exeter, N. IL , is the correspond-
ing secretary. A general meeting of the Association will be held at New Haven
on the 20th and 27th of next June. At this gathering of the family, au address
by Rev. George E." Street of Exeter, N. IL, will be delivered.

Items for the Street Genealogy may be sent to Mrs. Street of Exeter, the
corresponding secretary.

An article giving the early generations of this family will be found in the pre-
sent number of the Register, p. 188.

SOCIETIES AND THEIR PROCEEDINGS.
New-England Historic Genealogical Society.

Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, Xovembe.rC), 1889.— A monthlv meetimr was
held this afternoon at half past three o'clock, in the Society's House. 18 Somer-
set St., the president, Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M., in the chair.

Mr. Edwin D. Mead read a paper on "Washington's Relations to the Great
West."

Francis IL Brown, M.D., the corresponding secretarv, reported the name of
one gentleman who had accepted his election to resident membership.

December 4.— A monthly meeting was held at 3.30 P.M., president Goodell in
the chair.

Mr. William W. Wheildon of Concord, Mass. , read a paper entitled, " A Review
of Governor Gage's Administration and a History of the Massachusetts Provin-
cial Congress." Remarks followed from the president of the society.

The corresponding secretary reported the names of seven gentlemen who
had accepted their election as resident members. He also submitted a copy of
a letter to the Commissioners of the State House Extension, by a committee of
this society, with a list of the articles prepared by said committee to be placed
in the box under the corner stone of the Extension.

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217

The president called attention to the death of Mr. William Henry Montague
of Boston, the last survivor of the original members and founders of the society,
and appointed Rev. Lucius R. Paige, D.D., and Messrs. William 13. Trask and
John Ward Dean, a committee to prepare resolutions of respect to his memory.

The president also appointed Rev. Henry F. Jenks and Messrs. Augustus T.
Perkins, David B. Flint, George B. Chase and Henry E. Woods, a committee to
nominate officers for the ensuing year ; and Hon. Henry L. Fierce and Mr. Samuel
E. Sawyer a committee to audit the treasurer's accounts.

January 1, 1890. — The Annual Meeting was held at 3.30 this afternoon, the
president, Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M., in the chair.

Dr. Francis II. Brown, the corresponding secretary, reported the names of
three gentlemen who, during the year, had accepted resident membership, and
one who accepted corresponding membership, to which they had been elected.
He also reported that official notice had been received from the executor of
the late Hon. Charles L. Flint, that he was prepared to pay live thousand
dollars, bequeathed to the Society by Mr. Flint.

Mr. Thomas F. Millctt, assistant librarian, reported that 232 volumes and 489
pamphlets had been received as donations during the year.

Hamilton Andrews Hill, A.M., the historiographer, reported that information
had been received of the deaths of 41 members who died in 1889, and 38 who
died in previous years.

William B. Trask, A.M., in behalf of the committee appointed in December,
reported resolutions on the death of Mr. William Henry Montague, the last
survivor of the founders of the Society, which were unanimously adopted.

The Rev. Henry F. Jenks, chairman of the nominating committee, reported
the following list of candidates for officers for the ensuing year :

President. — Abner Cheney Goodell, Jr., A.M., of Salem, Mass.

Vice Presidents. — William Endicott, Jr., A.M., of Boston, Mass. ; Hon. Joseph
Williamson, A.M., of Belfast, Me. ; Joseph Burbeen Walker, A.M., of Concord,
N. H. ; Hon. James Barrett, LL.D., of Rutland, Vt. ; Elisha Benjamin Andrews,
D.D., LL.D., of Providence, R. I.; Hon. Edwin Holmes Bugbee, of Killingly,
Conn.

Becording Secretary. — George Kuhn Clarke, LL.B., of Needham, Mass.

Corresponding Secretary. — Francis Henry Brown, M.D., of Boston, Mass.

Treasurer. — Benjamin Barstow Torrey, of Boston, Mass.

Council. — For the term expiring in 1893 : Grenville Howland Norcross, LL.B.,
of Boston, Mass.; Benjamin Apthorp Gould, LL.D., of Cambridge, Mass.;
Henry Herbert Edes, of Boston, Mass.

The list was balloted for, and all the candidates were elected.

President Goodell then delivered his annual address.

Mr. Benjamin B. Torrey, the treasurer, reported that at the beginning of 1889
there was on hand $530.73 ; the income during the year was 82,936.50, making
the total receipts $3,467.29 ; and that the expenditures were $3,389.99, leaving a
balance on hand of $77.30. He also reported that $2,000 had been received in
legacies in 1889, and that the total amount of funds belonging to the Society
was $70,037.15.

William B. Trask, A.M., presented the annual report of the trustees of the
Kidder Fund ; Rev. Henry A. Hazen, Chairman, the report of the committee on
the library; Hamilton A. Hill, A.M., Chairman, the report of the committee on
memorials; and John T. Hassam, A.M., Chairman, the report of the committee
on English Research.

Owing to the illness of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chairman of the
committee on papers and essays, no report was presented by that committee.

Mr. Henry H. Edes spoke of the declination of David G. Haskins, Jr., A.M.
(who had served seventeen years), to be a candidate for reflection as recording
secretary, and offered resolutions recognizing the ability, rare fidelity and unfail-
ing courtesy shown in the performance of his duties. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted.

It was voted that the president's address and the several reports and papers'
be referred to the Council with full powers.

Februanj 5th. — A monthly meeting was held this afternoon, President Goodell
in the chair.

In the absence of the recording secretary, Mr. Walter K. Watkins was chosen
secretary pro tern.

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[April,

The president announced the resignation of Mr. George K. Clarke as recording
secretary. G. Arthur Hilton, LL.B., was chosen to fill the vacancy.

Edward Channing, Ph.])., assistant professor of History in Harvard University,
read a paper on " The Legislative Power of Parliament over Colonies."

The corresponding secretary reported the names of four persons who have
accepted membership.

March 5th. — A stated meeting was held this afternoon, President Goodell in
the chair.

A paper by Mr. William Henry Lee on Maj. Gen. John Patterson was read by
Thomas Gushing, A.M.

Mr. Hilton read the report of the corresponding secretary who was absent.
The report named nine persons who had accepted membership.

Mr. Hill, the historiographer, reported the deaths of Messrs. William Wilkins
Warren and Carmi E. King.

New Haven Colony Historical Society.

New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, October 23, 1889. — The first meeting of the
season was held in the Common Pleas Court Room. A paper on "Recent
Changes in Constitutional Government " was read by the president, Prof. Simeon
E. Baldwin.

Monday, Nov. 25. — The annual meeting was held in the new rooms of the
Society in the Insurance Building. Reports from various officers were received.
The additions to the library during the year were 291 volumes and G45 pamphlets.
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :

President.— Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, A.M.

Vice-President. — Hon. James E. English.

Secretary. — Thomas R. Trowbridge, Esq.

Treasurer. — Charles S. Lerte, Esq.

A paper on " President Clap [of Yale] and his writings " was read by Prof.
Franklin B. Dexter. *"- -

Monday, December 12. — A paper on " An Old English Chronicle" was read by
Prof. James M. Hoppin.

Saturday, January 18, 1890. — A special meeting. The curator read a list of
donations, which included a manuscript history with genealogies of East Haven,
Conn., bequeathed to the Society by the author, Rev. fa. Williams Havens. A
paper on "The Peace Conference of 1861" was read by Wm. W. Hoppin, Jr.,
of New York city, one of the secretaries of the conference. A letter was read
from Rev. E. M. Beaumont of Coventry, England, accepting his election as a
corresponding member.

Monday, February 17. — The regular monthly meeting was held this evening.
The president announced that Robert Purvis, Esq., of Philadelphia, had ex-
pressed his desire that this Society should be the eventual custodian of the
portrait of Oingue, the Amistad captive painted for him by Nathaniel Jocelyn.
A paper on the " Talmud" was read by Rev. Lewis Kleeberg.

Rhode Island Historical Society.

Providence, Tuesday, November 12, 1889. — The second of the Society's fort-
nightly meetings this season was held this evening.

Rev. George H. Clarke, D.D., of Hartford, Ct., read a paper on " Oliver
Cromwell," giving a minute account of the early life of Cromwell, and follow
ing him step by step till the day of his death. IJr. Clarke assigned the Protector
a place in history among the ablest and best rulers of England.

Nov. 12. — A meeting was held this evening.

Prof. J. Franklin Jameson of Brown University read a paper on " The De-
velopment of Historical Writing in Modern Europe."

December 10. — A meeting was held this evening at eight o'clock.

Mr. John C. Pegram of Providence read a paper entitled, " The United States
Naval School and its removal to Newport in 18G1."

December 31. — A meeting was held this evening.

Mr. Amos M. Eaton read a paper on the "Legal Condition of Women in
Rhode Island."

1890.] Societies and their Proceedings. 219

State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Madison, Thursday, January 2, 1890. — The thirty-seventh annual meeting was
held this evening, in the south wing of the Capitol. In the absence of the
president, Hon. Simon Mills, vice-president, occupied the chair.

Mr. Reuben G. Thwaites, the corresponding secretary, presented the thirty-
sixth annual report of the executive committee, which was adopted.

Hon. N. 15. Van Slyke, chairman of the linauce committee, and Hon. Samuel
D. Hastings, chairman of the auditing committee, made their reports, which were
adopted.

This being the time for the triennial election, the following officers were
chosen for the ensuing term of three years :

President. — Hon. John Johnston, Milwaukee.

Vice Presidents. — Hon. Harlow S. Orton, LL.D., Madison; Hon. James T.
Lewis, LL.1>., Columbus; Hon. James Sutherland, Janesville; Cliauncey C.
Britt, Portage; Hon. John II. Rountree, Platteville ; Hon. Simeon Mills, Madi-
son; Hon. John F. Potter, East Troy ; Samuel Marshall, Milwaukee; Hon. John
T. Kingston, Necedah; Hon. Moses M. Strong, Mineral Point; Hon. Charles I.
Colby, Milwaukee ; Hon. J. J. Guppey, Portage: Hon. Philetus Sawyer, Osh-
kosh; Hon. David E. Welch, Baraboo; James I). Butler, LL.D., Madison, and
Hon. Gysbert Van Stcenwyck, I,a Crosse.

Honorary Vice Presidents. — F. L. Billon, Missouri; Robert Clarke, Ohio;
Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., New York; William H. Wyman, Ohio; Charles
Fairchild, Massachusetts; Col. Stephen V. Shipman, Illinois; Hon. Amasa
Cobb, Nebraska; Col. Reuben T. Durrett, Kentucky; Samuel II. Hunt, New
Jersey; Simon Gratz, Pennsylvania ; Francis Parkman, LL.D., Massachusetts,
and lit. Rev. William Stevens Perry, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Iowa.

Corresponding Secretary. — Reuben G. Thwaites.

Becording Secretary. — Elisha Burdick.

Treasurer. — Frank F. Proudfit.

Librarian. — Daniel S. Durrie.

Curators were elected as follows :

Term expires at annual meeting in 1891 (to fill vacancy) — Rasmus B. Anderson,
LL.D.

Term expires at annual meeting in 1302 (to fill vacancies) — William A.
McAtee, D.D., and Rev. Joseph Henry Crooker.

Term expires at annual meeting in 1898 — Gen. Lucius Fairchild, J, IL. Car- . i --' ^
penter, LL.D., Hon. Breese J. Stevens, Maj. Frank'WTTTakTe'y, William A. P.
Morris, Wayne Ramsay, Alexander II. Main, Maj. Charles G. Mayers, Hon. M.
R. Doyon, Prof. William II. Rosenstengel, Prof. Frederick J. Turner and Prof.
Albert O. Wright.

Memorial addresses on deceased members were presented as follows : — On
Hon. Nelson Dewey, by Hon. Silas U. Pinney. On Prof. William F. Allen, by
Prof. David B. Frankenburger. On Hon. Arthur B. Braley, by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox. On Hon. Mortimer M. Jackson, by the late Gen. David Atwood. On
David Atwood, by Reuben G. Thwaites.

Kansas Historical Society.

Topeka, Tuesday, January 21, 1890. — The annual meeting was held this eve-
ning. In the absence of the president, Hon. William A. Phillips, the chair was
taken by the senior vice-president, Hon. C. K. Holliday.

Hon. Franklin G. Adams, the secretary, read the report of the board of di-
rectors. The report relates chiefly to the library, the catalogue and the finances.
During the year 187G, the first year of the Society's existence, the accessions to
the library were, 280 volumes of books, 54 volumes of newspapers and periodic-
als, and 71 pamphlets, making a total of 408. In 1889, the accessions were,
1,269 volumes of books, 1,053 volumes of newspapers and periodicals, and 2,248
pamphlets, making a total of 4,570. There are now in the library 2U.274 volumes
and 32,001 pamphlets. A catalogue is in preparation, and the iirst volume,
Which will be confined to matter exclusively pertaining to Kansas, will be issued
by the end of the present year.

Owing to the sickness and absence of president Phillips, his address was read

220 Necrology of Historic Genealogical Society. [April,

bv lion. T. D. Timelier. The subject was "Lights and Shadows of Kansas
ifistory.** The address was published in full in the Topcka Daily Capital, Jan.

The following officers for the ensuing year were elected :—
President.— C. K. Holliday of Topeka.

Vice-Presidents.— James S. Emery of Lawrence and Gov. L. U. Humphrey of
Independence. _ . ,

The secretary, F. G. Adams, and the treasurer, John Irancis, hold over.
A board of directors was also elected.

NECROLOGY OF THE NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

Prepared by Hamilton Andrews Hill, A.M., Historiographer of the Society.

The Historiographer would inform the Society, that the sketches prepared
for the Register are necessarily brief in consequence of the limited space
which can be appropriated. All the facts, however, which can be' gath-
ered are retained in the Archives of the Society, and will aid in more ex-
tended memoirs for which the " Towne Memorial Fund," the gift of the
late William B. Towne, is provided. Four volumes, printed at the charge
of this fund, entitled " Memorial Biographies," edited by the Commit-
tee on Memorials, have been issued. They contain memoirs of all the
members who have died from the organization of the Society to the year
1862. A fifth volume is in preparation.

Hon. Horace Fairbanks was the son of Erastus and Lois (Crosman) Fair-
banks, and was born in Barnct, Vermont, March 21, 1S20. His father had not
then entered upon the career which was to make the family name known and
respected throughout the -world, but live years later, in 1825, he moved with
his family to St. Johnsbury, and, with his brother Thaddeus, formed the firm
of E. & T. Fairbanks, and entered upon the manufacture of platform scales.
His son, Horace, was educated at the common schools of St. Johnsbury, and
the academies of Peacham and Lyndon, finishing his course at Phillips Academy,
Andover. He entered the service of his fathers firm, in the first place as a
confidential clerk, and at once showed himself capable of assuming important
duties; at the age of twenty-three lie became a partner. The management of
the financial afiairs of the firm gradually devolved upon him, and for many years,
and during the most active portion of his life, he was practically in control of
this department of the business. In the meantime the business was constantly
increasing, and, therefore, increasingly exacting on the abilities and powers of
those who were carrying it on. In 1843 the annual sales amounted to about
$50,000: in many single years, of late, the sales have exceeded 83,000,000.
About fifteen years ago a stock company was organized which succeeded the
firm iu the prosecution of this large business.

Mr. Fairbanks was public spirited as a business man and as a citizen, and
shrank from no public duties, except in one instance of which we shall speak
presently, which he was called upon to bear. He served as a bank and rail-
road director, bank president, and trustee in important educational institu-
tions. One of his greatest achievements, in connection with other enterprising
men, was the construction of the Portland and Ogdensburgh Railroad. For
ten years he worked untiringlv to secure charters" in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, to interest the people of these states in the great work, and to
push it forward to completion, in the teeth of obstacles that seemed well nigh
insurmountable. He has been credited with the conception of the idea of
carrying the road up the steep bank of the Saco lliver, and through Crawford

1890.1 Necrology of Historic Genealogical Society. 221

Notch. At all events he maintained the feasibility of the plan, while many
practical men were disposed to laugh him to scorn; and in the summer of 1877,
he had the satisfaction of driving, with his own hand, the spike that held the
last rail of the Vermont division of the line in its place, — the connecting link
between the Connecticut lliver and Lake Cham plain.

Erastus Fairbanks, the f ather, was the first War Governor of Vermont ; the
sod, having been active in various Republican conventions, State and National,
and sermfas presidential elector at large in 18G8, was called in 1876 to fill the
highest executive office in his native state, lie had refused to be a candidate,
and had withdrawn his name from the canvass, but, in his absence, and in spite
of the decision he had announced and insisted upon, he was nominated by
acclamation without a dissenting vote, and was notified by telegraph: "You
are to be governor of Vermont, in spite of yourself." In his letter of accept-
ance he wrote, " The unanimity of the Convention, supplemented by the solicit-
ation of friends, has overborne my own judgment and wishes, and leads me to
accept the nomination." lie was elected by a large majority, and his adminis-
tration was a wise and judicious one.

Governor Fairbanks was a large and generous giver to his own town and to
objects of education and philanthropy throughout the country. He was a con-
sistent member cf the First Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury, and at the
time of his death was one of its deacons. It has been said of him : " He was a
man of high Christian character, and singularly fine and noble spirit, his quiet
and almost reserved manner covering a strong will, clear judgment, thoughtful
intelligence, cultivated mind and warm heart." He died at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, March 17, 1888, after a short illness, of pneumonia, the disease
having been aggravated, if not caused, by the great blizzard of that time. The
funeral took place at St. Johnsbury on the 22d of March.

Abraham Thompson Lo,we, M.D., was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts,
August 15, 1700. His parents were Abraham and Charlotte (Hill) Lowe; and
the original ancestor of the family in America was John Low or Lowe. Abra-
ham Lowe studied at Dartmouth and graduated M.D. in 1816. He practised
medicine in his native town until 1825, when he came to Boston, and engaged
in business as a druggist. In 1828 he formed a connection with Sampson Heed
in the wholesale drug trade, and this continued until 1830. Dr. Lowe was not
in active business from 1830 to 1850, but he served as a director in banks, and
insurance aud railroad companies, and for many years was a member of the city
government, and of the State legislature.

In 1850 Dr. Lowe, with others, founded the Safety F*und Bank, now the First
National Bank of Boston, and was elected president, which office he held while
he lived. A general banking law had recently been enacted by the Massachu-
setts legislature, under which bank circulation was to be secured by the deposit
at the State House of State or City bonds. Dr. Lowe and his associates were
among the first to organize under this free banking law; and when, soon after
the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, the National Banking Law was
passed, which superseded all State legislation, so far as related to currency,
they were the first to organize under the new system. Mr. Chase, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, desired that the Merchants Bank of Boston, the largest
banking institution in the city, should become the First National Bank here ;
but, owing to delay on the part of the numerous stockholders in consenting to
the change, the honor of doing business under this name was accorded to the
enterprising bank which was so prompt to accept the new order of things made
necessary by the cost of the war, and which has maintained, from that time to
the present, a most enviable reputation for prudence, sagacity and enterprise in
successful combination,

In early life Dr. Lowe compiled two school-books, and many years after, a
small volume entitled Observations on the Medicinal Agencies of the Vegetable
Materia Medica. He was a man of cultivated literary taste, and occasionally
wrote verses which, we believe, were privately printed. He became a life
member of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society in 1870. He was an
active and very useful member of the Christian denomination known as the
New Church. He died in his native town, Ashburnham, July 4, 1888, having
nearly completed his ninety-second year.

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222 Book Notices. [April,

BOOK NOTICES.

The Editor requests persons sending books for notice to state, for the information of
readers, the price of each book, with the [amount to be added for postage when sent by
mail.

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Capt. Francis Champernowne, the Dutch Conquest of Acadie, and other Historical
J'apers. By Charles Wesley Tuttle, Esq., Ph.D. Edited by Albert
Harrison Hoyt, A.M., with Historical Notes. With a Memoir of the Author
by John Ward Dean, A.M. Boston : Printed by John Wilson & Son, Uni-
versity Press. 1880. Sra. 4to. pp. xvi.-H2G, including Index. For sale by
Damrell & Upham, 283 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Price $4.
The Papers here collected are full of interest to the historical student, and
shed a flood of light on the subjects to which they relate. Many of them have
been printed before, but the Life of Champernowne, one of the early settlers in
the Pascataqua, for which Mr. Tuttle had during many years made extensive
researches, was not arranged in final shape at his death, and required the
collaboration of the editor.

In tracing out the early history of New Hampshire the relation of Capt.
Mason and Sir Perdinando Gorges to its first settlement attracts attention. Capt.
Champernowne was the nephew of Gorges and his representative in the Pasca-
taqua for many years. The lives of Mason and Champernowne received from
Mr. Tuttle a careful and exhaustive study. His life of Mason has already been
printed by the Prince Society. This of Champernowne now completes the
contribution.

Descended from some of those who grappled with the task of establishing the
English-speaking race on these shores, Mr. Tuttle naturally took interest in the
traditions of the neighborhood where his ancestors had lived. An article on
" Hope Hood," an Indian chief who lived on the northern shore of Great Bay,
and another on the reported Massacre at Pox Point, are republished. They show
the acumen of his mind and the nice historical judgment which distinguished
his work, and give the assurance that, could he have been spared a few more
years to pursue these studies, the accuracy of his deductions would have thrown
new and strong lights on many obscure or neglected parts of our early history.
The approach of the Second Centennial of the Provincial Charter of New
Hampshire as a Royal Government, led the New Hampshire Historical Society
to call on Mr. Tuttle for an address in 1880, which he delivered at Portsmouth, in
December of that year, to a refined and appreciating audience. This admirable
sketch, and another embracing the period 1689-90, after the arrest of Gov. An-
dros at Boston, when New Hampshire was without a Provincial Government,
are invaluable to the student and interesting to the general reader.

The conquest of Acadie by the Dutch in KJ74 is an episode in the history of
New England on which Mr. Tuttle has thrown a stronger light than any historian
who has preceded him. The struggle, whether this should be New Prance or
New England, began in and has made classic the region between the Keunebeck
and the Penobscot, where the outgrowths of the Popham expeditions for settle-
ment on one side, and that of DeMont's on the other, made head against each .
other. Gorges had followed up the amical relations which Capt. Popham in
the Gift in 1607, and Capt. Gilbert in the Mary and John, had formed with
theBashabee of the Abnaki tribes at the beginning of the settlement at the mouth
of the Kennebeck. Persevering when others grew weary and retired. Gorges
had made a trading station at Pemaquid, the centre of the wonderful spring and
winter fishery in that charmed quadrant included between Cape Newwagen and
Damarel's-cove Islands on the west, and Monhegan and St. Georges. Thither
annually the Virginia and the English fishermen came in armed vessels, with
crews of forty men to the vessel, forming, as their vessels yearly increased in
numbers, a barrier against the westward progress of French settlements. The
6tand taken from 1GU7 to 1G20 and onward by these men of Gorges on the main-
land and the fishermen on the adjacent island, was the definite initial of the
subsequent dominion of the English-speaking race in America. When they
began there were no English settlers nearer than Virginia, but under the lee of
these brave fishermen, holding the front with fifty or sixty armed ships, settlers
did set down on the New-England coast, and colonies grew up, whose history
we trace with filial pride.

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There are mysteries in this old frontier region which to the historian are still
inscrutable. Pcmaquid, the focus of our strategy, the theatre of war and the
seat of our frontier trade, with its perished villages and decayed forts, attracts
attention but defies consecutive narrative. On the other side the Penobscot
and the French Acadie have found numerous and bright annalists; but who
before Mr. Tuttle ever summoned the Dutch conquest of the Penobscot and the
Acadie from its forgotten grave to furnish another incident of that old
" debatable ground "?

War broke out between Holland, on the one side, and England and France, on
the other, in 1C72. The Dutch were persevering, and in 1(173 recaptured New
York from the English and hoisted the Orange lla<£. A few months after this,
England made peace and left France still at war. The gallant Captain Aernouts,
of the Dutch frigate Flying Horse, distressed by inactivity as lie lay at New
York, counselled with one Capt. Jlhoade, a mariner of Boston, and determined to
capture Acadia from the French. With Rhoade as his pilot he ran down the
coast and through the beautiful bay of the Penobscot, where, in August, he
attacked and captured the fort at Pentagouet, and then sailed eastward to the
St. John's, where he captured another fort and made another commander prisoner
— reducing the whole coast between these points. He returned to Boston,
showed his commission, ransomed his captives, sold his plunder, sent a few
men back to hold his captured country, and sailed away. The fortunes of these
men, their final capture by an armed ship from Boston, their trial for piracy,
their able defence and the State Papers between Holland and Great Britain
which these events gave rise to, and which are printed in the appendix to the
Yolume, constitute a quaint, romantic and striking historical episode.

The volume contains a very interesting sketch of Christopher Kilby, whose
memory is yet preserved in Boston by a street bearing his surname. There is
also a sketch of Edward RancPolph, which has been very ably completed by Col.
Hoyt in an extended editorial note of some forty pages. As the Crown Collector
of Customs at the time when Massachusetts had forfeited her original charter
and become a royal province, his ollicial prerogatives were irksome to the traders
accustomed to the loose proceedings under the old charter. He also excited the
indignation of the Orthodox Church, which feared lest a policy to establish
Episcopacy and perhaps restrain their church, lurked under his official power,
and personal predispositions. Under the attack of these combined influences,
he became thoroughly hated in the colony. His zeal and ability in his office
made him more distasteful. Randolph evidently was both able and intelligent,
and was more indebted to the unpopularity of liis cause and duties than to any
personal defect or miscarriage for the intense bitterness of the opposition
which he encountered. The policy of the Crown GoA'ernment did not retain the
popularity which had welcomed the establishment of the provincial charter.
The editor contributes much to the interest of the article by a full account of
the libel suit which Randolph brought against the Rev. Increase Mather.

Another interesting Paper is that of Lord Percy, who commanded a regiment
at Boston at the breaking out of the Revolution, including a succinct
notice of the ancient family from which he sprung. In New Hampshire, the
towns Northumberland and Percy had been named in provincial days in their
honor. One of his ancestors also had been Lord High Admiral for America,
with authority to hold Vice-Admiralty Courts. Though Lord Percy had not
been favorable to American Independence, and had drawn his sword against us,
yet by some strange sympathy a later untitled relative of his bequeathed his
fortune to the United States to found an institution for the diflusion of knowl-
edge, and the Smithonian Institution rears it palatial towers and opens its vast
treasuries of knowledge at the capital of the Union.

It may be observed that Mr. Tuttle devoted much time to the elucidation of
the early history of New Hampshire and Maine, particularly of the region about
the Pascataqua ; his lives of Mason and of Champernowne include much that
he had collected, but his note-books abound with notes on other marked men
in the Pascataqua.

Mr. Tuttle was a careful student of the relations of Sir Ferdinando Gorges to '
the early history of New England, but, as he frequently informed the writer,
he eagerly expected that the writings and papers of that pioneer of New Eng-
land colonization would be discovered by the Record Commissioners in the
muniment room of some old mansion of Devon or Somerset, and preferred to
wait.

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224 Booh Notices. [[April,

The materials for a great work on the early history of New England had
accumulated around hiin, his judgment and power of analysis had reached g
hit'h standard, when he was snatched away. The particular studies of parts of
his bro,ad designs which, by the loving impulse of his wife, have been gathered
Into this volume, show the quality of the fruit a few years more of his ripe and
candid intellect could have furnished his country, had fate assigned him a longer

lift-.

Great credit is due to the editor, Mr. Hoyt, for the intelligent labor he has
bestowed upon these Papers, and the elegant appearance of the book reflects
credit on the editor's taste and on the liberality of the executor of the late Mrs.
Tuttle's will— the Hon. John J. Currier— in carrying out her pnyvision for this
memorial to her deceased husband.

The accomplished pen of John Ward Dean, Esq., prefaces the work with a
well considered and elaborated memoir of Mr. Tuttlc. The book is illustrated
with a portrait of the author, and some admirable heliotype pictures of scenes
mentioned in the text, and the press-work altogether reiiects credit on the Uni-
versity Press of Cambridge. A handsomer book of its style has rarely come
from any press.

By the Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury, of Boston.

A Complete History of the Boston Fire Department, including the Fire Alarm Ser-
vice and the Protective Department, from 1630 to 1888. Arranged in three parts.
By Autfiur Wellington Bkayley, Compiler of the " American Dramatic
Directory," etc. Illustrated. Boston, Mass. : John P. Dale & Co., Publishers,
17 Boylston Street. 1889. 8vo. pp. xx.-f-729. Price $5 in cloth.
The career of a Fireman is'one well calculated to bring out qualities akin to
those possessed by the soldier, lie should exhibit physical courage, presence
of mind, coolness, a fertility in expedients, promptness, and a capacity to adapt
the proper measures to any emergency. These, together with high executive
ability, are what we are accustomed to look for in the defenders of our country;
and these, properly illustrated, arc what lend the chiefest charm to military
history or in fact to any history having for its object the narration of daring
exploits and perilous adventures.

The history of the Boston Fire Department is as rich in examples of heroism,
of self -sacrifice, of faithful devotion to duty as are the chronicles of a war. It
also contains its full share of humorous incidents, its romance, its picturesque
and exciting events and many other characteristics which go far to make up an
interesting and entertain ins: volume ; and although the position in the community
of the men composing it for the two centuries or more of its existence has
changed much since its first establishment, the men now in its service are still «,

animated by the same high sense of duty as characterized their predecessors in
different walks of life.

In the history of the department under notice, the first impression made upon
the mind of the reader is the extraordinary labor and research displayed in the
preparation of the numerous lists and portraits of the members of the depart-
ment. A great deal of time and persevering application must have been expended
in getting together these lists, portraits ami illustrations of the engine houses;
and as time goes on, these will give a constantly increasing value to the volume.
The author has also succeeded very well in tracing the earlv organizations of
the department. The accounts of the great tires of 1653, 1076, l<;7!>, 1690, 1691,
1700, 1711, 1759, 1760, 1775 (Charlestowu ), 17*7, 179-1, 1«24, 1852, 1872 and 1873 are
written with much care and considerable detail. The great lire of Nov. 9, 1872,
is described in a particularly graphic manner. The history of the cliiterent sys-
tems, the changes in each and the biographies of the engineers aud prominent
firemen are all prepared with much skill and accuracy.

The author has divided his work into three parts. The first part, containing
eleven chapters, comprises the period from the first settlement of Boston to its
organization as a city in 1822, a period of nearly two centuries. The second part,
consisting also of eleven chapters, includes the period from 1822 to 1872, or
more exactly, to the re-organization of the fire department under a Board of
three Fire Commissioners, with chief and district eugincers as before, on the
Mta of October, 1873, a period of little more than half a century. In the third
part, the transactions of the department and accounts of fires from 1873 to 1S8S
are triven in three chapters, together with fourteen chapters relating to biograph-
ical sketches of firemen, descriptions of fire districts, lists of members, nuiner-

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225

ous illustrations of engine honses and engines, maps of districts, port mils of
members of. the department and a history of the Boston Protetth e Department,
all of which shows, as already stated, remarkable industry on the part of the
author, and renders the work of much importance.

It is naturally to be expected that, in a work of such magnitude and including
so many different personages, errors will occur. The most prominent one is
perhaps on page 4, where the disastrous conflagration of 1G53 is said by the
author to be described by Governor Winthrop. The latter died in 1649, four
years previous to this fire, and the description is to be found in a letter of John
Endecott to Governor Winthrop's son, published in the "Winthrop Papers, Collec-
tions of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Fourth Series, vol. v.i. page 15 L
Another error, possibly a typographical blunder, on page 179, ascribes the name
of the old Melville engine as in honor of Manor Thomas Melville. Major Thomas
Melville is evidently intended. The usefulness of the book is somewhat im-
paired by the absence of an index, though this deficiency is supplied to a limited
extent by a very full and detailed table of contents. It is to be regretted that
the author did not enliven his book with more of the humorous anecdotes of a
department so rich in this form of literature, but he probably thought it would
make a too bulky volume. The book is printed on good paper and with excel-
lent type, and many of the illustrations are very clear. The illustrali n on page
91 of the burnt district of 1787 is a reduced copy of the original in the Belknap
Papers. It gives an excellent view of the houses at the South End between
Boylston and Pleasant Streets at that time.

By Oliver B. Stcbbins, Esq., of South Boston.

The Hawes School Memorial, containing an Account of five Re-unions of the Old
Hawes School Boys'' Association, Oiie Re-union of the Hawes School Girls' Asso-
ciation, and a Series of Biographical Sketches of the old Masters. Together
with a List of the Members of the two Associations, and a Re-production of the
Programmes of some of the Exhibitions. Illustrated. Boston: David Clapp &
Son, Printers. 1889. 8vo. pp. 227. Price .$2.00; to be obtained of George
W. Armstrong, Boston & Albany It. It. Station, Boston. t

As its title shows, this book is local in its character and object. It is intended
to give an account of the rise, progress and termination of one of our Boston
Grammar Schools, situated in that part of the city called South Bostou. during
the first half Of this century, and of events connected with that school. This
intention is minutely and faithfully carried out, and in carrying it out much
matter is introduced of general interest. In the well-written Introduction, by
Edwin B. Spinney, is given an account of the place itself, which was set oh' from
the old town of Dorchester and made part of Boston in 1804, then having only
twelve families, and of the first ellbrts to establish a school there, which was
started and carried on for many years by private subscriptions. It was not till
the year 1823, when the population of South Boston was about 1700, that a
school-house was erected by the city, Boston having been made a city the year
before. The building was put up on land donated for school and other purposes
by Mr. John Ilawes, whose bequests are still in various ways conferring benefits
on the people of South Boston. The School was named for him, and rapidly
grew in importance and influence, being the only Grammar School in the place
till 1S42, and in ls5'J it took rank as a Primary School. In this Introduction
are also included full accounts of the origin and formation in 1884 of the Boys'
Association, and arrangements for its first Ite-union. Graphic accounts follow
of this and four subsequent Re-unions, written respectively by Messrs. E. B.
Spinney, II. W. Wilson, Richard J. Monks, Horace Smith ami George B. James.
Mrs. C. A. Provan also notices in full the formation and re-union of the
Girls' Association. All these meetings were enthusiastically attended, and the re-
ports of them are set forth in a lively and entertaining style. Mr. Armstrong's
Directory of the members of the Boys' Association shows a list of about 250,
embracing many prominent business and professional men of the city. A very
important part of the volume is devoted to biographical sketches "of the ten
masters of the school during the thirty-six years of its existence, which are
written J>y_ Oliver B. Stebbins. The names of these pioneers in public teaching
in a portion of the city now numbering 70,000 inhabitants were : Rev. Lemuel
Capen, Barnum Eield, Jairus Lincoln, Rev. (now Bishop) Mark Antony De
Wolfe Howe, Rev. William Putnam Page, Moses W. Walker, Rev. Joseph Har-
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226 Boole Notices. [April,

rlm'ton Jr., Frederick Crafts, John Alexander Harris, and Samuel Barrett.
Mr*BteWinshasnot only been very successful in obtaining material for h,.
tervstitu,' memoirs of this body of worthies, but also instructs and entertains the
reader bv minutely particularizing the different methods practised by them in
the perplexing task of managing the School. No part of the book lias been
more carefully prepared or satisfactorily presented than this. The volume closes
with about twenty pages devoted to re-prints of old Programmes, Orders of
Exercises, etc., at different Annual Exhibitions. The book is richly illustrated,
including portraits of seven of the ten masters of the School. It cannot fail
to prove^intcresting to any one who desires information in regard to the former
management and condition of our public schools.
By David Clapp, of South Boston.

The History of a Bare Washington Print. By Wm. S. Baker. Reprinted from

"the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography." Philadelphia.

1889. 8vo. pp. 10.

The author has given us some interesting facts regarding a picture which has
unfortunately perished, unless the copies ordered by the Spanish Minister of
the day be yet in existence.

The original oil portrait was ordered by Congress in January, 1779, in a reso-
lution expressing high regard for their illustrious chief. Chas. Wilson Peale
was the artist. Said to be a striking likeness, it was one of the attractions of
Independence Hall, where it hung until the 9th of Sept., 1781, when some
miscreants entered the hall and completely defaced it and an engraving of General
Montgomery's monument. Fortunately, Peale had taken a number of mezzotints,
which must have been numerous at! the time, but of which three copies only are
now known to exist. One of these three is in Mr. Baker's valuable collection
of Washington portraits. A reduced photograph precedes the article.

Mr. Baker is well known as the highest authority on the " Engraved Portraits
of Washington " and the author of numerous other works. As maternal descent
is considered by some the source of literary ability, we may mention that Mr.
Baker is a descendant of the Keyser Family of Gerinantown, Pa., whose gene-
alogy has been recently noticed in these columns. g

By William J. Potts, Esq., of Camden, N.J.

A Biographical Sketch of the late Hon. Edmund, Lovell Dana, President of the

Osterhout Free Library, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. By Sheldon Reynolds, A.M.,

Secretary. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1889. 8vo. pp. 11.

This biography was prepared at the request of the Directors of the Osterhout
Free Library, of which Judge Dana was president, and was read before the
board, July 2G, 1889. It was also read before the Wyoming Historical and
Geological Society, on the 13th of Sept. following.

The subject of this sketch died at his residence in that city, April 25, 1889,
in his 73d year. He was a descendant of Richard 1 Dana, an early settler of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, ancestor of the Dana family of Massachusetts,
prominent in literature and law. They were descended from Richard's son
Daniel, 2 while Judge Dana of Wilkes-Barre was from an elder brother .Jacob. 2

Judge Dana was graduated at Yale College in 1838, and in 1841 was admitted
to the bar of Luzerne County. In 18G7 he was elevated to the bench, from
which he retired in 1878. He served with credit in the Mexican War and in the
war for the perservation of the Union. Mr. Reynolds presents us with an
interesting sketch of the varied career of this learned and patriotic man.

The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, with Translations of
the Icelandic Sagas. By B. F. DkCosta. Second Edition. Albany, N. Y. :
Joel Munsell's Sons. 1890. 8vo. pp. 18G.

Over twenty years ago, in the year 18G8, the Rev. Dr. DeCosta published the
first edition of the book before us. In his preface he said : " The aim of the
present work is to place within the reach of the .English-reading historical
student every portion of the Icelandic Sagas essentially relating to the Pre- ,
Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen. These Sagas are left, in
the main, to tell their own story ; though, with the necessary introductions, notes
have been added, either to remove misconceptions, to give information in regard
to persons or places, or to show the identity of localities described." The book,
on its first appearance, was noticed in the Register for April, 18G9.

1890.] Booh Notices. 227

Much has been published since then upon the early visits of the Northmen to
these shores, but. Dr. DeCosta has not changed his opinion upon that subject.
" Time has only served to strengthen his belief in the historical character of the
Sagas, "while all his geographical studies point now as formerly to New England
as the scene of the Northmen's exploits, many of which have left no record,
though valuable traces of Icelandic occupation may yet be found between Cape
Cod and Nova Scotia."

The discussion about the Northmen now going on, and the nearness of the
Columbian celebration, have led the author to bring out a new edition of his
book which has long been out of print. " The work," he says, " is not issued
■with any intention of seeking to detract from the glory of the achievements of
Columbus, though we should remember that the time is rapidly approaching when
history will summon us to honor the Cabots, the great fellow countrymen of the
Genoese, who saw the continent of America before Columbus himself viewed it.
The desire is to place before the reader the story which precedes that of 1402,
and which is so interesting and important."

We are glad to see a new edition of this book placed before the public,
though we cannot entirely agree with the author in his conclusions. We think
it probable that the Northmen visited New England, but we fail to lind sufficient
evidence to identify the localities visited.

A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, with Numerous Illustrations. By trie-
Rev. Elias Nasox, M.A. Revised and Enlarged by GisdRGE J. Varney.
Boston: Published by B. B. Russell, 57 Cornhill. 1890. 8vo. pp. 724.
I Price in cloth $3 ; in half russia $4.

The first edition of this gazetteer was published in 1874, and was noticed in
this periodical for January of that year. The author, the Rev. Mr. Nason, was
the editor of the Register for several years, and his merits as a writer arc well
known to our readers. lie died June 17, 1887, and a memoir of him appeared in
the Register for January, 1889.

Nason's Gazetteer of Massachusetts has long been a standard work which our
people could not dispense with ; but the lapse of fifteen years since its publi-
cation has rendered a revision necessary. Mr. Nason before his last sickness
was making preparations to do this. Mr. Russell, the publisher, has been
fortunate in obtaining the services of Mr. Varney to revise the work. He is the
author of a Gazetteer of Maine and of other historical and statistical works,
and is every way qualitied for his task. At first it was his intention only to
drop obsolete portions and substitute therefor "matter supplied by later in-
vestigations and the latest statistics," and thus bring the articles up to date.
"But on entering upon the work it was found that, in the passage of time,
the conditions in nearly every town had so changed, sometimes by a reduction
of population and business, oftener by an increase, and frequently by change of
industries, that the account of every one had to be rewritten." This, of course,
involved a great deal of labor.

One improvement in this edition is the introduction, in their alphabetical
place, of the names of villages as well as towns. This is a great convenience.
It sometimes happens that a village is better known than the town in which
it is situated, and frequently better known than some other towns.

The Rev. Mr. Nason in his preface stated that his object had been. " to por-
tray the varied local scenery, the genius, the spirit, the industrial and intellectual
activities of the people; to form a guide-book of the State adapted to the
family, the student, the man of business and the man of leisure, the editor and
the literary institution"; and he well accomplished his design. Mr. Varney
has not lost sight of this object.

The book is well printed and bound, and is illustrated with numerous
engravings.

The History of Hancock, New Hampshire, 1764-1889. By William Willis
Hayward. Lowell, Mass. : Vox Populi Press, S. W. Huse & Co. 1889. 2
vols, in one. 8vo. pp. xiv.-f-1070. Price $5.

The present bulky volume is a result of the celebration of the centenary of
the town, Sept. 17, 1879. "A desire was manifested, on the part of those
present, that a history of the town should be prepared at an early date, and a
Yote was passed to that effect." At the next annual town meeting, March 13,

228 Booh Notices, [April,

1S80, the town voted to take one hundred copies of the history when completed,
and pay three hundred dollars for the same. Three years later one hundred
dollars more were voted. On the 26th of January, 1882, an association of
twenty-fire persons was formed to assume the pecuniary risk of the undertak-
ing, and, in the following May, the lie v. Mr. Hay ward was engaged to write
the history. The book is published for the association by Messrs. Orland Eaton,
Joshua Stanley Lakin and John Peabody Ellis, a committee chosen for that
purpose.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of 294 passes,
which is devoted to the history of the town, to which is prefixed the proceed-
ings at the centennial celebration. The remainder of the volume is devoted to
the genealogies. Itev. Mr. Hayward has performed his task in a thorough and
very satisfactory manner. He has given us a history of his native town, that
preserves in an interesting form the memory of its proininent men and events.
The arrangement of the materials is clear, both as to the history and the gene-
alogies. Iu the latter, many well written biographies are found. The book
is illustrated by about fifty portraits, besides plans and views. It has a good
index. j

Kansas State Historical Society. List by Counties of the Newspapers and Periodicals
published in Kansas, January 1, 1881). Compiled by F. G. Adams, Secretary
of the Kansas Historical Society. Topeka : Kansas Publishing House, Clifford
C. Baker, State Printer. 1889. Svo. pp. 38.

This is a list of newspapers and oilier periodicals published in Kansas, Jan. 1,
1889, a year ago last new year's day. They number 827 in all. The regular
issues of these, with very few exceptions, are received by the Kansas State
Historical Society, and are furnished free by the publishers. The Society has
been very successful in gathering this species of literature, and their collection
of Kansas newspapers and periodicals will be very useful to those who are
investigating the history of the state. We have heard of no other state that
has, iu one place, so large a proportion of the newspapers published within its
limits.

The society had, on the first of January last, 20C4 volumes of newspapers and
periodicals.

North Worcester; its First Settlers and Old Farms. By Caleb A. Wall.

Worcester: Published by the Author. 1890. 8vo. pp. 22.

Mr. Wall is the author of " Reminiscences of Worcester" and "Puritans vs.
Quakers," the latter of which has been noticed in this magazine. The pamphlet
before us consists of an historical address delivered before the Chamberlain
District Farmers' Club, at the residence of A. S. Lowell, North Worcester,
Massachusetts, on the 6th of December, 1889. Mr. Wall gives a minute and
interesting account of the settlers of North Worcester and their dwellings and
farms. $

The author announces that "this is the first of a series of similar publica-
tions" which he " is about to issue, containing his addresses at different historic
points in tin- territory of Worcester, comprising accounts of the tirst settlers and
their families, historical and genealogical, the location of their estates, etc."
The series promises to be both useful and interesting.

Records of the Town of Plymouth. Published by Order of the Toirn. Vol. I.,
1G3G to 1705. Plymouth: Avery & Doten, hook and* Job Printers. 1889.
8vo. pp. xvi.-f-347. Price fl.aQ. Sold by W. B. Clarke & Co., 340 Washington
Street, Boston.

Town Records of BrooUine, Massachusetts, 1S72-1S34. Published by Vote of the

Town. 1888. Svo. pp. 731-f-liii.
Worcester Town Records, 1784-1788. Edited by Franklin P. Pice. Worcester,

Mass. : The Worcester Society of Antiquity. 1890. Svo. pp. 13G.

We have before us printed records of three towns, Plymouth, Brookline and
Worcester. The first two were printed at the expense of the towns, the other
by an antiquarian society.

Mr. llassam, in his report to the New-England Historic Genealogical Society
at the annual meeting, January 2, 1889, which was printed with the' proceedings

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229

at that meeting, shows the importance, and even the necessity, of printing the
town records if we would preserve them for posterity. We are glad to see so
many towns waking up to their duty.

Plymouth, whose records head our list, was settled by the Pilgrim Fathers in
1C20, and is the oldest of our New England towns. It is one of the iirst places
visited by strangers from abroad, and its history has a greater interest than that
of any of our other towns to descendants of the settlers of New England in all
parts of our country. The records of the town of Plymouth, we arc told in
the Introduction, " exclusive of the records of births, deaths and marriages, are
contained in nine volumes, the first covering the period from 1G36 to 1G92; the
second from 1G92 to 171C»; the third from 171G to 1795; the fourth from 1795 to
1828 ;' the fifth from 1828 to 1854 ; the sixth from 185 1 to 18GG ; the seventh
from 18GG to 1878; the eighth from 1878 to 1887; and the ninth from 1887 to
the present time." The publication before us contains the whole of the lirst
volume of records and ninety-eight pages of the second. The chairman of the
committee of publication was Hon. William T. Davis, author of " The Ancient
Landmarks of Plymouth," and he was entrusted by the committee witli the
editing of the book. He deserves great credit for the excellent manner in which
he has performed his task. The book is well printed and has a good index.

The town of Brookline, in 1875, had its records for two centuries, from 1G34
to 1838, printed in a handsome octavo volume, with an index. The town, by
vote April 13, 1888, ordered that the records from 1872 to 1884 be printed, and
$1325 was appropriated for the purpose. The result is before us. The volume
was printed under the supervision of the town clerk, Mr. B. F. Baker, who
evidently has bestowed much care upon the work. It is handsomely printed and
well indexed. We trust that the records for the intervening third of a century
(1830 to 1873) will be preserved in type before long. The records of Brookline
are now printed annually in the town reports. An excellent plan.

The Worcester Town Eecords, 1784-1788, form Number 28 of the Proceedings
of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. The previous records of the town have
already appeared in the Proceedings of that society, of which seven volumes
have been completed and two numbers of the eighth volume have been published.
They are handsomely printed on tine white paper with a broad margin.

History of Bumf or J,, Oxford County, Maine, from its First Settlement in 1779, to
the Present Time. By William B. Lapham. Augusta : Press of the. Maine
Farmer. 1890. 8vo. pp. xv.-f432. Price $4. Sold by George E. Littletield,
67 Cornhill, Boston.

This new book by Dr. Lapham, who has given us several excellent histories of
towns in the state of Maine, has reached us too late to give an adequate notice
in the present number of the Register. We are promised a review of the book
for the July number, from a correspondent will qualitied for the labor. The vol-
ume makes a tine appearance and is illustrated by many portraits and views.

The Neic-England Notes and Queries. Vol. I., No. 1, January, 1890. Newport,
R. I. : R. H. Tilley. 1890. 8vo. pp. 30. Published quarterly. Price f 1 a year.
This is a continuation of Mr. Tilley's former publication the American Notes
and Queries, which appeared annually. Two issues of that work, those for 1888
and 1889, have appeared, both of which have been noticed by us. Mr. Tilley
has now decided to discontinue his annual, and to commence a quarterly publica-
tion with a new name and an enlarged scope. The January number contains an
interesting variety of Notes, Queries, Announcements, Book-Notes, notices of
Magazines and Newspapers, etc.

American Men of Letters. William Cullen Bryant. By John Bigelow. Boston
and New York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1890. 12mo. pp. vii.-j-355. Price §1.25.

This memoir is a new instalment of the valuable series edited by Charles
Dudley Warner, and entitled " ximerican Men of Letters." Bryant may well be
considered a representative man of letters, for his whole life was passed in
literary labor. In fact he won distinction nearly three quarters of a century
ago, for his " Thanatopsis," which made him famous, appeared in 1817. The
present memoir is by his intimate friend, John Bigelow, who had the good for-
tune to be associated with Mr. Bryant as editor of the New York Evening Post.
It is a fitting tribute to the genius, the ability and the sterling integrity of one

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whose life may be pointed to as an example for American youth with literary
aspirations. <

The Pratt Family. A Genealogical Record of Mathcw Pratt of Weymouth, Mass. ,
and his American Descendants, 1623-1888. Boston, Mass. 1889. 8vo. pp.
226.

1599-1890. Lion Gardiner and his Descendants, with Dlustrations. Edited,
with Notes Critical arid Illustrative, by Curtiss C. Gardiner. St. Louis :
A. Whipple, Publisher. 1890. Royal Svo. pp. xxv.-K70.

A Genealogical Record, including Two Generations in Female Lines, of Families
spelling their name Spofford, Spofford, Spafatd and Spaford, descendants of
John Spofford and Elizabeth (Scott who emigrated in 1638 from Yorkshire,
England, and settled at Rowley, Essex Comity, Mass. By Dr. Jeremiah
Spofford of Grovelaud, Mass. Memorial Edition by his daughter, Apiiia T.
Spofford. Boston : Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son. 1888. Svo. pp. 502.

The Ancestry, Life and Times of Eon. Henry Hastings Sibley, LL.D., first Gover-
nor of the State of Minnesota. By Nathaniel West, B.D. Pioneer Press
Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1889. 8vo. pp. x.-f-596. Price
$3.75.

The Descendants of William White of Haverhill, 3fass. Genealogical Notices-
By Daniel Appleton White, 1863'. Additional Genealogical and Biographi-
cal Notices. By Annie Frances Richards. Together with Portraits and
Illustrations. American Printing and Engraving Company, Boston, Mass.
1889. 8vo. pp. 80.

TItomas Cooper of Boston and his Descendants. By Frederick Tuckeeman of
Amherst, Mass. Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers. 1890. Svo. pp. 11.

The Butterfields of Middlesex. By George A. Gordon, A.M., Member of the
New-England Historic Genealogical Society. Svo. pp. 11. Price 25 cts.

We continue in this number our quarterly notices of recent genealogical pub-
lications.

The first book on our list is the Genealogy of the Pratt Family, by Francis G.
Pratt, Jr. The author informs us in his Introduction that " There are known
to have been at least ten persons by the name of Pratt, who settled in New Eng-
land between 1G21 and 1050. Some of these individuals were doubtless members
of the same family, perhaps brothers, or other relationship near or remote;
but from what places in England they came, or who were their immediate
ancestors, or in what ship each arrived, is very much a matter of tradition."
Thirty years ago, in i860, the late Rev. Stillrnan Pratt printed a brief account
of one of these settlers, John Pratt of Dorchester, and four years later, in 18G4,
the late Rev. Frederick W. Chapman published a very full genealogy of the
descendants of another original settler, Lieut. William Pratt of Hartford and
Saybrook, Conn. In the same volume he gave irenenlo^ical notes concerning
the descendants of three other Connecticutsettlers. .John Pratt of Hartford,
Peter Pratt of Lyme and John Pratt of Saybrook. The late Eleazer F. Pratt of
Boston made lar^e collections concerniivj: the descendants of Phinehas Pratt, of
Weymouth and Plymouth, but they have never been printed. The present volume
is devoted to Mathcw Pratt of Weymouth and his posterity. He was "the
ancestor of nearly all the Pratts of Weymouth, and many of the name in Bridge-
water, Middleboro', Taunton, Mansfield, Stoughtou, Norton, Easton, Arlington,
Braintree, Quiney, Randolph, Holbrook and adjacent towns." Mr. Pratt the
author has bestowed much labor on this book and has been very successful in
obtaining the records of the family. A grandson of the emigrant. Elder William
.Pratt, was one of the settlers of Dorchester, South Carolina, and wrote an
account of the first voyage of the Dorchester Colony to that place, which is
preserved and is printed in this book. The volume is Well arranged, and hand-
somely printed and bound. It has a good index.

The next book, Lion Gardiner and his Descendants, is by Mr. Gardiner of St.
Louis, Mo., whose book entitled " The Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner"
was published in 1883 and was noticed by us in January, 1884. The history of
Lion Gardiner and his services in early New England days as a military engineer,
are well known. The present volume contains a reprint of the author's former
book, revised, corrected and enlarged, which form Part I. of the book. The

RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

Pbesented to the New-England Historic Genealogical Society to March 13, 1890.

Prepared by Mr. Thomas F. Millett, Assistant Librarian.

I. Publications written or edited by Members of the Society.

The Boltons of Old and New England, with a prenealotry of the descendants of
William Bolton, of Heading, Mass. 1720. Bv Charles Knowles Bolton. Albany,
N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. 1889." 8vo. pp. 85.

History of the Old South Church (Third Church), Boston. 1669-1S84. By
Hamilton A. Hill. In two Volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1890. 8vo. pp. 602 and 688.

The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, with Translations
from the Icelandic Sagas. By Rev. B. P. DeCosta. 2d Edition. Albany, N. Y. :
Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. 1890. Svo. pp. 196.

The Story of St. Philip's Church, New York City. A discourse delivered in the
New Church, West Twenty-fifth Street, at its opening, Sundav morning, Peb. 17,
1889. By the Rev. B. P. DeCosta, D.D. New York : Printed for the Parish. 1889.
8vo. pp. 57.

Second Report of the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes,
Towns and Counties. By Robert T. Swan, Commissioner. Boston : Wright & Potter
Printing Co., State Printers, 18 Post Office Square. 1890. 8vo. pp. 45.

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of
Friends of the Indian. 1889. Edited by Samuel J. Barrows. Published by The
Lake Mohonk Conference. 1839. Svo. pp. 125.

1890.] liecent Publications. 231

scconrl part, consisting of family records, comprises eight generations traced,
with some notices of individuals in the ninth and tenth generations. The book
is compiled in a very thorough and scholarly manner. The typographical
execution is excellent, and the illustrations which are numerous are line. There
is a good index.

The volume on the Spofford family is another book that deserves great praise.
The late Dr. Jeremiah Spofford published a genealogy of this family in 1851, in
an octavo pamphlet of 04 pages. This work was reprinted in the Register with
additions and corrections in the years 1854 and 1855. Dr. Spofford continued
to collect material till his death, Sept. 10, 1880. aged 92. He left his genealo-
gical papers to his daughter, Aphia. In compliance with his special request she
has revised and completed the Spofford genealogy, and brought it out in the
elegant volume that is before us. That she has bestowed great labor upon it is
plain. The full and precise records she gives is one evidence of this. The
book is well arranged, handsomely printed, with numerous portraits and other
illustrations. It has a good index.

The book on the life and ancestry of Gen. Sibley is a very interesting work.
He was the first delegate from the territory of Minnesota, and the first governor
of the state. He has been a member of Congress and a brevet major-general of
the United States Volunteers, besides holding other offices of honor and trust.
Gen. Sibley is a descendant of John Sibley, an early settler of Salem, Massachu-
setts. Dr. West furnishes much information about the ancestry of Gen. Sibley
and a full and interesting account of his various services to his state and his
country.

The next book, that on the White family, is based on a pamphlet of 47 pages,
published in 1863, entitled " Descendants of William White of Haverhill," which
was prepared from the papers of Judge Daniel Appleton White of Salem, who
died in 1861. The volume before us by Mrs. Richards is very much fuller than
the original work, and is otherwise improved. The book is well printed and is
embellished with a number of excellent portraits and other illustrations. Among "
them is a reduced fac-simile of the Indian Deed of Haverhill, which seems to
be in private hands. We hope the owner of the deed w r ill place it in the city
clerk's custody.

The pamphlets on the Cooper and Butterfield families are reprints from the
Register for January last.

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II. Other Publications.

Essex Institute Historical Collections. July, Aug. and Sept. "1888. Vol. 25.
Salem, Mass. : Printed for the Essex Institute. 1890. 8vo. pp.

A Biographical Sketch of the late Hon. Edmund Lovcil Dana, President of the
Osterhout Erce Library, Wilkesbarre, Pa. By Sheldon Reynolds, A.M., Secretary.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. 1889. 8vo. pp. 11.

The British Flag ; Its Origin and History. Incidents in its use in America. A
paper read before the Connecticut Historical Society, .Tune 7, 1881. By Jonathan P.
Morris. Reprinted from The Hartford Dady Courant, June 8, 1881. Hartford, Conn.
1889. 8vo. pp. 21.

Dedham Historical Register. Yol. I. No. 1. January, 1890. Published by the
Dedham Historical Society. Dedham, Mass. 8vo.

Worcester Town Records. 1784-1788. Edited by Franklin P. Rice, "Worcester,
Mass. Worcester Society of Antiquity. 1890. 8vo. pp. 13G.

Johns Hopkins University Studies. No. 3, of Eighth Series. Local Government in
Wisconsin. By David E. Spencer, A.B. Baltimore, Md. : Publication Agc/vty of th^
Johns Hopkins University. March, 1890. 8vo. pp. 9.

Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society. Quarterly Part.
January, 1890. Portland, Me. : Published for the Society by Brown, Thurston & Co.
8vo.pp. 112.

Address by Harrison Hume. Delivered at the 250th Dinner of the New-England
Club, Dec. 21, 1889 (Forefathers' Day). Boston : Printed by Nathan Sawyer & Son,
No. 70 State Street. 1890. Svo.pp. 21.

Eighty- fourth Anniversary Celebration of the New-England Society in the City of
New York, at Delmonico's, Dec. 23, 1889. 8vo. pp. 107.

Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College. 1888-1889.
Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the University. 1890. 8vo. pp. 61.

Thirty-first Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Maine,
with Statistical Tables compiled from the Annual Returns of the Railroad Companies
operating Railroads in the State for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889, to which are
added the Decisions of the Board made during the year 1889. Augusta: Burleigh &
Flynt, Printers to the State. 1890. 8vo. pp. 202.

Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Dr. George De Benneville, late of German-
town, Penn., who died in March, 1793, in his 90th year. Translated from the French
of his own manuscript, to which is prefixed a Recommendatory Preface by the
translator, Rev. Elhanan Winchester. A reprint from the American edition of 1800.
Revised and corrected, with notes and addenda n^ hitherto published. Edition
limited to 500 copies. Germantown, Pa. : Converse Cleaves, Publisher. 1890. 8vo.
pp. 55.

DEATH.

John Kittredge Haines, Esq., died at
his residence in Lansing, Iowa, Wed-
nesday, March 5th, at 5 o'clock P.M., in
his 77 th year. He was the second son
of Joseph and Martha Griffin (Dwincll)
Haynes, and was born at Loudon,
Merrimack County, N. II., April 29,
1813. He learned the trade of a cab-
inet maker, but his health fading he
made several foreign voyages. About
1841 he formed a co-partnership with
Messrs Smith and Randall, cabinet
makers of Salem. In the autumn of
1885, he removed to Lansing, Iowa,
and settled on a farm which he occupied
till his death. His pedigree will be
found in the Register, vol. xxiii. pages
148-9. He married first, his cousin,
Mrs Martha Smith, daughter of John
Dwinell, of Salem, Mass.,^Nov. 12, 1837,

who died April 5, 1849. He married
secondly on the 3d of February, 1850,
at Salem, Mass., Miss Cordelia Vivian,
of Vassalboro*, Me., who survives him.
By his first marriage his children were
Martha Eldora, who died in infancy ;
John K. Jr., Waukon, Iowa ; William
Plumer, of Northwood, Dakota ; Ste-
phen Eldredge, of Lynxville, Wis., and
Deborah Ellen, wife of P. Putnam, of
Lynn, Mass. By his second marriage
his children were Mary V., wife of John
Kassal, of Lansing; James Henry, of
Lansing, and Walter E., of Caledonia,
Minn.

Mr. Haines his two surviving broth-
ers : Sylvester II., of Caledonia, N. D.
(formerly of Michigan), and Andrew
M., of Galena, Ills.

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VOL. XLIV. — JULY, 1890

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CONTENTS — JULY, 1800.

„• IV wt rations :

1. Portrait oT HENRY BARTON DAWSON (to face page 233).
:;. Church at Garsdon (to face page 305).
,:. Washington Tablet (to face page 305).

I. Mi -voik of II exult B. Da wson. By Rev. John A. Todd, D.D. .... 233
II. Letters of Col. Thomas Westhkook and Others. (Continued.) Communi-

cited by William B. Trash, A.M 248

MI. Kxapp's Life or Timothy Dexter. By William C. Todd, A.M. . . . 256

IV. The Bank(f.)s Family of Maine. By Charles E, Banks, M.D 258

V. R Kcoiii) Book of the Sextons or the First Presbyterian Church of Eliza-

;*r :i u, N. J. Com. by Edmund J. Cleveland, Esq. ' 264

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Bodge, AM 270

VII., Inscriptions at Danvers,.Mass. (Concluded.) Copied by the late Samuel P.

Foxci< r } Esq. . 279

VIII. Nicholas Brown and his Descendants. By Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson '. . 281
IX. Positions held by Alumni. By Richard TL. Greene, A.M. .... 2S6

X. Allf.rtoxs of New England and Virginia. By Isaac J. Greenwood, A.M. . 290
XI. Genealogical Gleanings in England. {Continued.) Brett, Washington and

other iamlties. By Henry F. Waters, A.M 296

XII. Contents of hie Box placed in the Corner-Stone of the Massachusetts

State House Extension. . 309

X III. N O 1 3 • S A .\ 1.) Q I E I?. I es :

Xoies. — William Dummer, 249; The Historiographer of the New-England
Historic Genealogical Society; James Chilton, 314; Williams, 315.

Queries.— Bo.-ton Custom House Records; Havre de Grace, 315; Barbados
Immigrants; Mack, 310.

Ilrp r ies.— Clapp ; Hale-Kirbv-Downing, 316.
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Phdo.»ophieal Society: Brain tree's Quarter Millenary, 317; Commemoration at
Philadelphia of the Battle of Lexington; The Algonquin and the Kliot Biblio-
graphy; Allen and Arnold at Tieonderoga; Goss'a Paul Revere, 318; Restora-
tion oi Church at Kenninghall, England ; Genealogies in Preparation, 319 249, 314-320
u< u.vus and rHEra Proceedings:

Ni-w-England Historic Genealogical Societv ; Old Colony Historical Society. 320;
Maine Mi>torical Society; Rhode Island Historical .Societv, 321; Western Re-
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Moses Field Fowler, Esq., 322; Rev. David T. Packard; Alfred C. Herscy,

Kail-, 323; Obver Ditson, Esq.; Stephen Grant Deblois, Esq., 324 . . 322-325

XVI. Book Notices 325-330

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JULY, 1890.

HENRY B. DAWSON.

By Rev. John A. Todd, D.D., Tarry town, N. Y.

ON Thursday, May 23, 1889, surrounded by wife and children,
the surviving loved ones of the household, there passed away,
from the ranks of the living, a man of marked and rare individuality,
whose memory will be most tenderly cherished by those who knew
him best. That man was Henry B. Dawson. Although he had no
clearly pronounced disease, he had nevertheless been in failing health
for a number of months, at least, if not indeed for several years,
and at last the body, worn and weary from long continued toil and
incessant struggle with the storms of life, sank peacefully to its rest
in the sleep of death.

He was distinguished by several characteristics that put him in
noticeable contrast with the common run of human kind, but of
those who have devoted themselves to historical investigation, at the
sources of things, ad font es rerum, bringing to light new facts, or
rather facts that had previously been overlooked or obscured, search-
ing out and putting men in possession of documents of unusual
value, with all their wealth of suggestion to modify old opinions,
and to clear up what had before been dark or imperfectly understood,
— he ranked, as he deserved to rank, among the most conspicuous, and
the most useful in the land.

The labors of his life were immense, and no one can now go over
the long list. of works, productions, articles in various forms, that he
wrote, or edited and published, without being touched with almost
a sense of weariness in view of the research, the study, the thought,
and the concentrated attention, to say nothing of the enormous
physical eifort, which they must have required. He gave to the
world over one hundred works, taking the greater and the smaller
together, upon different events and phases of our national and local
history, and thus did as much, to say the least, as any man of his
generation to elucidate our colonial and revolutionary annals.
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234 Henry B. Daivson. [July,

There was a peculiarity in his mind of the nature of genius, the
qrxchkht-geist, which enabled him to discern, and to explain to the
bottom, the old documentary records, and the early traditions,
whether written or unwritten, and this, in connection with his un-
compromising loyalty to the truth, no matter whether it was adverse or
favorable to friend or foe, stamped him as a born investigator and
historian. His persistence, too, when he once struck the trail of an
important fact bearing upon the judgment to be finally formed, was no
less remarkable. He seemed to know that the fact was in existence
somewhere, as Columbus seemed to know that there was somewhere
a new world beyond the western sea, and he could not rest until he
had found it. No expenditure of effort, or of pecuniary means com-
patible with his slender fortune — for like so many others of hi3
intellectual taste and ability he was far from being the possessor
of wealth — ever daunted him in the pursuit of his object. He
was sure it was there, and rather than leave it there in continued
and unprofitable concealment, he was ready, like Hotspur in King
Henry IV., to j

" Dive unto the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks."

And rarely did it happen that when he emerged from the search, he
did not bring the reward of his effort with him.

It is always a matter of interest to trace back to its small begin-
nings anything that has grown to be important or great. The
springs of the iSTile and the Orinoco have been sought with persistent
energy by men because their grander development farther on lends
dignity to their obscure and distant sources. We go back from our
present point of national progress and power in this closing decade
of the nineteenth century to the small settlements of the English at
Jamestown, of the Dutch at New York, and of the Pilgrims at Ply-
mouth, in the early decades of the seventeenth, and the two points
of contrast mutually impart a more vivid interest to one another.
So it is with men, who, by their character and labors, as illustrated
in what they have been and done, have impressed themselves strongly
upon their fellows. The wish and the instinct are to inquire into
their origin, their early lives, and their successive advances toward
the ultimate result in which they became what they were, and ac-
complished what they did for their country or the world. It is a
natural and laudable impulse, and it cannot be doubted that many
who have derived pleasure and profit from the labors of our departed
friend will be glad to know something of his personal history, of his
spirit and of his daily life. j

Henry Barton Dawson w r as born at Gosberton, one hundred and
thirty-five miles north of London, on June 8, 1821. His birth-
place was in the County of Lincoln, not far from the famous old
town of Boston, on the eastern coast of England. In the spring of

1890.]

Henry B. Dawson.

235

1834, when he was only about thirteen years old, his parents emi-
grated to the United States, landing in the city of New York. They
found a home in Manhattanville and Blooiningdale, then almost in
the suburbs, and here they continued to reside, Henry in the mean-
time living with them until, in the autumn of 1837, the family re-
moved to Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York.

Henry enjoyed good advantages of education in his native village
across the water, and in the town of Donnington, near by. After
the removal to New York, except during the summer of 1835, he
attended Public School No. 12 in West Seventeenth Street, and
the village school at Manhattanville, until March, 183G, when he
was withdrawn from school in order to assist his father in his
business of gardening. It indicated his quality as a student
that the Trustees of the Public School Society offered him, in
recognition of his fidelity and unusual progress, a free scholarship
in any of four colleges which they designated ; but this offer,
gratifying as it was, the circumstances of his father did not allow
him to accept.

Henry continued to assist his father in the gardens at Manhat-
tanville, Blooiningdale and Ithaca until 1838, when he spent a short
term of service with a wheelwright in Ithaca, and afterwards a
similar term in a large publishing and book-selling house in the same
village. The latter was most congenial to his tastes, and he greatly
enjoyed the opportunity it afforded of reading and becoming familiar
with books. It was much against his own inclination, therefore,
and quite as much against the efforts of his employers to keep him,
that he felt constrained to give it up. It seemed best, however, that
he should leave Ithaca in April, 1839, and return to New York
city, as the confidential clerk and book keeper of a prominent but
aged resident of Ithaca, who was then removing to that city. With
this gentleman first, and afterward with others, he continued to
occupy himself in the same capacity, sometimes acting in important
business transactions, until the summer of 1847, when he withdrew
from mercantile pursuits, to take the editorial and business control
of The Crystal Fount and liecJiabite Recorder, a temperance and
literary paper published in New York. He was obliged to take this
step in order to recover payment of a loan which he had made to
the proprietor. In a few months, however, he found it necessary
to withdraw from this undertaking, with the loss not only of the
original loan, but of all that was left of the entire savings of his
life. He was then engaged in the service of the International, and
the American Art Unions, in each instance acting as its agent in
New York city, and with each, in succession, he continued to the
close of its existence. Later he held the position of Secretary to
the builders and first proprietors of the Wall Street Ferry to Brook-
lyn, and then of Secretary successively to the Beekman and to the
Mechanics Fire Insurance Companies of New York. When the

23f> Henry B. Dawson. [July,

last-named company failed, through the concealed misconduct of its
President, in 1856, his business career as an employe of others in
purely business lines was brought to a final close.

During all the years of his childhood, youth and early manhood,
Mr. Dawson had spent whatever time he could control, including
much which he took from the hours of his needed rest, in reading
and study, especially on the subject of theology, of the science of
government, and of the history of our own country, lie became
ere long a contributor to the press. As early as the spring of 1841,
his occasional articles, generally on the political questions of the day,
and always anonymous, which were published in the New York daily
newspapers, attracted no little attention. Three of these articles,
forming a series, based on the three sentences of President Harrison's
dying words, and sent without the author's name to one of the popular
dailies, were used for the leading editorial articles on as many suc-
cessive days. The notice taken of them induced the editor to pub-
lish three times the request for the name and address of the writer.
For some reason the requests were not complied with, and the
writer's identity was never disclosed.

The peculiar character of his studies naturally led him to a close
observance of the politics and the politicians of the day, not that he
ever sought or even desired political preferment, but it was rather a
study based on principle, and growing as a duty out of the citizen-
ship which he highly prized. In fact, before any of the political
leaders in the city of New York had made any public movement on
the subject of "Free Soil," in the summer of 1848 he wrote a call,
and headed its list of signers, for a public meeting to consider the |

subject, in the Ninth Ward, then one of the strongest Democratic
wards in the city, lie was chosen Secretary of the very large meet-
ing which assembled in response to that call, and it became historic
as the first " Free Soil " meeting held within the city during that
eventful struggle. It belonged to the small beginnings of that mighty
conflict between Slavery and Freedom, which, but little more than
a decade later, shook the continent, and culminated in the Emanci-
pation Proclamation and the surrender at Appomattox Court House
that made Freedom national, from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific waves.

He was associated with two of the oldest and most influential
residents of the ward, and, with them, elected at that public meeting
to represent the ward in whatever General Committee of the party
should be appointed by other wards. Subsequently, with his honored
and venerable associates, he took his seat as a delegate of the old
-Ninth Ward, in the General Committee appointed to conduct that
stirring campaign, and, with John Van P>uren, Benjamin F. Butler,
oainuel J. Tilden, Lucius Robinson, David Dudley Field, John
Cochrane, Alexander S. Johnson, Eugene Casserly, Wilson G.
Hunt, William F. Havemeycr, Chauncey Schaffer, and others of

1890.]

Henry B. Dawson,

237

equal distinction, representing other wards, lie continued to represent
the Ninth, which became the strongest "Free Soil" ward in the
city, in that General Committee, as long as the separate organization
of the somewhat revolutionary party was maintained.

When his associates in the "Free Soil" party returned to the
Democratic fold, he did not go with them, notwithstanding he con-
tinued to claim that he was, what they had previously been, a
"Democrat opposed to the present administration." Fntertaining
these views, he immediately united with others disaffected in forming
the "Free Democratic League," an association whose principal ob-
ject was to prevent the extension of Slavery into free territory, the
purpose to which the "Free Soil Party," locally known as "The
Barnburners," had been nominally devoted. In the work of organ-
izing that "League" he was associated with the well-known Hon.
John P. Hale and Minthorne Tompkins, veteran statesmen, for the
formation of the Platform and Constitution of the new body, and
the original manuscript of that Platform and Constitution, drawn up
by himself, and slightly amended by the "League," bearing the
signatures of the venerable William Jay, John Jay, John P. Hale,
Minthorne Tompkins, Cornelius Yanderbilt, Hiram Barney and
others, was still in Mr. Dawson's library at the time of his death.
The Hon. John Jay, afterward American Minister at the Court
of Austria-Hungary, was President of the "League," and Mr.
Dawson was its Vice President, a position he continued to hold
until the League was superseded in its work by other organizations
proceeding from itself, and was finally dissolved.

When the political conflict in Kansas became so conspicuous that
the attention of the entire country was called to it, he aided, in con-
nection with John Jay and D. D. T. Marshall, in calling and organ-
izing the three great meetings in the city of New York, in which,
successively, the mechanics, the merchants, and the body of the
citizens protested against the pro-slavery policy and proceedings in
that territory. Of the large General Committee which the last of
these meetings appointed, and of which General Avvazzani, the dis-
tinguished Roman patriot and refugee, was chairman, Mr. Dawson
was chosen secretary. From that committee, and the State Con-
vention which it called and controlled, and the National Convention
which was the outgrowth of it, proceeded that "Republican Party"
which is now so well known in the history of the Republic and of
the world.

In 1855 he was an officer of the first Republican Convention held
in Westchester County, where he then lived. He wrote and
reported the resolutions which were adopted by that convention,
and widely copied by the press throughout the State. By the
same convention he was elected, with John Jay, Horace Greeley
and William Bleaksley as his associates, to represent Westchester
County in the first Republican State Convention that was held in
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238 Henry B. Dawson. [July* t

the State of New York. It will be remembered that at that time, (j

as at all times previously, the Democratic and the Whig parties i

maintained their respective party organizations, presented their re-
spective candidates for the popular support, and conducted their several C
campaigns with all their old time partisan and selfish eagerness, with- ]
out in the slightest degree affording any aid or comfort to the young 3
" Republican " party. It is now claimed by those who had opportunity <
to know, that some who appeared to sympathize and to act with the
new party, were really in full but secret communion with one or the
other of the old parties, aiming at nothing so much as to strengthen
the old parties to which they had respectively belonged, by bringing
to their support at the polls as many votes as possible from the new
organization. To a nature as frank and open as Mr. Dawson's,
everything like mere cunning and artifice was intensely disagreeable,
and the discovery in others of aims that were not simple and
patriotic like his own, tended to lessen his interest in the political
struggles of the day. |

Although he did not cease to insist that he was a "Democrat, and
nothing else," he continued to act with, and to support the great
"Republican Party" up to, and after the election of Mr. Lincoln in
1860 as President of the United States. Later on he thought he
discovered a tendency in the party toward the centralization of power
in the General Government that was in disregard of the Federal
Constitution. Afterwards, when it became, in his view, still more
conspicuous, he retired from the field of politics altogether. At the
time of his death he had not voted for many years. l

After all, his tastes and his habits drew him irresistibly to his library
and his writing table, where he found congenial employment in study,
especially in historical study, and in the use of his pen. lie loved to
investigate, and he loved to write. As the qualities of his mind and
the extent of his researches became more and more widely known, he
was more and more frequently called upon to communicate of his re-
sources to the public. The veteran Clerk of the Common Council of
New York city, Deacon David T. Valentine, invited him to write a
historical paper for the well known " Manual of the Common Council
of the City of New York," of which he was the official editor.
The result was a paper entitled "The Park and its Vicinity," occu-
pying fifty-three pages of the Manual for 1855. It was Mr.
Dawson's first production in American History. He presented such
claims in behalf of New York, as against those of Boston, for
priority in the Revolutionary movements of the colonists, and he
maintained them with authorities so unquestionable, drawn largely
from the contemporary newspapers of Boston and New York, that
he at once arrested the attention of historical scholars throughout
the country, and the author of the paper, greatly to his own sur-
prise, was honored with corresponding membership in two leading
historical societies, as well as with the congratulations of many of

1890.]

Henry JB. Dawson,

239

those of whose writings the country is now justly proud. That paper
was afterwards republished in several different forms.

His next effort was an elaborate paper, which occupied him more
or less during two entire years, on "The Military Ketreats through
Westchester County in 1770." It was written for the New York
Historical Society. Another paper, quite as elaborate as the last, was
entitled, "The Life and Times of Ann Hutchinson." It was pre-
pared for the Baptist Historical Society, and subsequently published
in successive numbers of The New York Chronicle^ a weekly Bap-
tist paper issued in New York city by the Ile y. Pln trcellus Church,
D.D., and his two sons. Each of these papers may be said to have
broken up new ground in historical inquiry, and not only to have
added to the author's reputation as a painstaking and faithful his-
torian, but to have greatly enlarged the circle of his literary friends.

The most widely known, probably, of all Mr. Dawson's writings
was the large work entitled, "Battles of the United States by Sea
and Land." It was written in successive parts in 1858, on the in-
vitation of Johnson, Fry & Co., publishers of a number of serials,
and, when completed, was issued from the press in New York in
two massive quarto volumes beautifully printed, and elaborately
illustrated with forty highly finished steel engravings. The work
obtained a circulation of thirty-live thousand copies, and gave its
author a place in the front rank of writers on Military History in
the United States. The plan of the work is as peculiar as it is at-
tractive and useful to the inquirer. The operations in each battle,
from that of Lexington to that before the city of Mexico, which
ended in the surrender of that city, are given in detail, fortified by
copious references to the best authorities. To each of these separate
narratives are appended all the principal documents relating to that
particular battle, and very frequently biographical sketches of the
officers in command. While engaged upon this laborious and trying
work he was cheered by the encouraging approval and aid of Presi-
dent Sparks of Harvard College, William Gilmore Sims, Washington
Irving, Commodore Paulding, Captain Farragut, General Wintield
Scott, General John E. Wool, the family of General Worth, and
others, the greater number of whom^also furnished him with unpub-
lished material for his use in preparing his several narratives. The
book took its place among the standard authorities on the subject
of which it treats.

An interesting correspondence grew out of the publication of
,? The Battles," occasioned by some of the author's statements in
regard to the conduct of General Putnam at the battles of Bunker
Hill and of Long Island. Objections were publicly raised by the
Hon. Henry C. Deming and A. Cliiford Griswold, Esq., well known
residents of Hartford, Conn., in the Hartford Dally Pout, to
which Mr. Dawson replied, and the correspondence extended over
a period of six months, from January 27 to July 29, 1859. Mr.

240

Henry B. Dawson.

[July,

Dawson is said to have obtained valuable information hitherto un-
published from the Hon. George Bancroft, the great historian, in
addition to what he had already discovered himself, and new light
was thrown upon several points of peculiar interest in our history.
At the instance of a few private gentlemen in New York city, and
to gratify a demand for the correspondence which the paper could
not supply, the articles on both sides were gathered up and repub-
lished in 18 GO under Mr. Dawson's editorial care. As a result of
the discussion the Legislature of Connecticut was led to take special
action on the subject involved.

It is impossible within the limits assigned to this article even to
mention a large number of Mr. Dawson's contributions to our his-
torical knowledge, and those that are referred to must necessarily
be spoken of in the briefest terms. In May, 1859, on the invitation
of the New York Historical Society, he prepared and read before
that body a paper on the rise and progress of the opposition in the
Colony of New York to the Home Government. He devoted to it
great care and labor. At the expense of General J. Watts de
Peyster, of Tivoli, New York, the paper was afterwards printed in
an octavo volume entitled, "The Sons of Liberty in New York:
a Paper read before the ^\ew York Historical Society, May 3, 1859. "
It is full of interest, and presents concisely the facts concerning the
"Battle of Golden Hill," in John Street, New York, in January,
1770, where it is claimed the first blood of the Revolution was shed
more than five years before the battle of Lexington. In 18 GO,
when the struggle for the preservation of the Union was on the
point of breaking out into open war, Mr. Dawson was already
engaged on two further contributions to our history, one entitled
"The Life and Times of Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New
York, and Vice President of the United States," and the other
"The Military History of the United States." The excitement of
the times, however, caused him to suspend his labors, and neither
of them was ever finished.

Allusion has already been made to Mr. Dawson's remarkable suc-
cess in bringing to light important documents and records that had
long lain in obscurity or neglect. It may have been partly due to
his good fortune, but behind all there was a sagacity in him, which,
by comparison of circumstances, and by inferences drawn from ascer-
tained facts, made him feel that the proofs of what he suspected to
be true must somewhere exist. It was in this way that he brought
out in conspicuous view a fact that redounds to the lasting honor of
Massachusetts. In the year 18 G2, while pursuing his investigations
into the political history of the American Revolution, the apparent
silence of Massachusetts concerning Independence in the early part
of 17 7G impressed him so strangely, that he was led to make a per-
sonal examination of the archives of that State in the Secretary's
office at Boston. It resulted in the discovery of an Act of the

1890.] Henry B. Dawson, 241

General Court, which up to that time had been barely mentioned
without comment by any historian, and altogether passed over in
silence by nearly all of them, in which that Colony had declared and
practically established its own independence on May 1, 177G, two
months and three days before the Declaration of Independence by
Congress, on July 4, 1776. That very important historical infor-
mation, illustrated with a facsimile of a commission from which
the King's name had been erased, and the King's seal destroyed, and
a new authority given to the holder of it, not now by the King, as
before, but by the Council of the Colony in the name of "The Gov-
ernment and People of Massachusetts Bay in New England," in
accordance with the provisions of that Act, was published by him in
a letter addressed to the Hon. Luther Bradish, President of the Xew
York Historical Society, which was printed with the title, " New
York Historical Society. Declaration of Independence of the Colony
of Massachusetts Bay, May 1, 1776." J

In the same way, while searching into the archives of the City of
New York in 1862 for other information, he found what afterwards
led him to discover the entire series of Accounts between the City
of New York and those who had controlled its revenues while that
city was occupied by the King's troops and governed by martial law
administered by the Commander-in-Chief of the Boyal army, from
1776 to 1783. As the originals of all these accounts had been
carried away when the Royal army evacuated the City in November,
1783, the finance department of the city had none of them, and at
the instance of the Hon. George Opdyke, then Mayor of the city,
Mr. Dawson made a complete transcript of these accounts, added
copies of all certificates of those who had been appointed from time
to time to audit them, illustrated the entire series with elaborate
notes embodying the several military orders on which the several
collections and disbursements had been made, and addressed the
whole in a communication to the Mayor. He in turn transmitted it
with a special message to the Common Council, and that body or-
dered it to be printed entire in the Minutes of the Common Council.
It was also printed in a separate pamphlet at the expense of the city.
Afterward, in addition to a handsome recompense in money, he re-
ceived from the Corporation of New York city its official thanks,
of which an elegantly engrossed copy appropriately framed was for-
warded to him by the City Clerk. So far as the writer knows, it
is the only instance where the official thanks of the great City of
New York has been voted for a purely historical service. The
Council gave him also the unusual privilege of copying and publish-
ing any of its ancient records and files which he should, at any time,
desire to employ. It need scarcely be said that the recipient highly
prized this recognition of his labors, and that he hung the engrossed
copy of the city's thanks in a conspicuous place on the walls of his
home, where it remained until the day of his death, and remains
still as a family heir-loom.

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Henry B. Dawson.

[July,

It wns about this time that an application was made to Mr.
Dawson bv the venerable Joseph J. Lewis, of Westchester, Perm.,
executor <>f the Wayne estate, personally a perfect stranger to Mr.
Paw £on, but induced by having rend "The Battles," to write the Life
of General Anthony Wayne, and the family papers were for that
purpose accordingly placed in his hands. The General's descendants,
however, having manifested but little or no interest in the undertaking,
the work, although commenced, was finally dropped. The incident led,
nevertheless, to one good result. For when the fact had become known
that the Wayne papers had passed into Mr. Dawson's hands, the
executive committee of the New York Historical Society invited
him to prepare and to read before that distinguished body a paper
on the capture of Stony Point by General Wayne, in July, 1779.
He accepted this invitation, and in April, 18G2, read before the
Society the extended paper which is one of his best productions, and
has become known in Europe as well as in America. In order to
save the time required in copying the original manuscripts to be in-
troduced into his paper, he adopted the novel expedient of taking
those identical manuscripts themselves to the reading desk, and there
reading them, instead of the copies, to the large and intelligent
audience assembled to hear him. He had not thought of the effect
that would be produced by reading, from those old time-worn manu-
scripts of the Revolutionary period, as he had occasion to illustrate
his subject, letters and papers in the hand-writing of Washington,
Lafayette, Wayne, and others but little less distinguished ; but as he
unfolded and read them, one after the other, and went on with the
absorbing recital, the great audience became intensely interested,
and bent forward to catch every word till lie was done. It seemed
as if the old heroes of the Revolution had come back to tell the story
themselves. At the close, the Hon. Luther Bradish, the President,
declared to the anxious wife of the author, that no such paper had
been read before the Society in all the twenty years of his connection
with it, and no such effect had been produced. The paper was pub-
lished in 1863 in a handsome volume appropriately dedicated "to
the Hon. Joseph J. Lewis, Commissioner of Internal Revenue of
the United States, Washington, D. C.," who had first applied to
Mr. Dawson to write the lite of General Wayne. The volume in-
cluded an appendix containing all the known historical material of
that period bearing on the subject, and was illustrated with fac-
similes of all the principal manuscripts on which the paper was
based, as well as with a copy of the Military Map of the Assault on
the Fort, which was published in 17cS4 by the geographer to the
King. The title of the volume is, "The Assault on Stony Point
by General Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779, prepared for the New
i ork Historical Society, and read at its regular monthly meeting,
April 1, 18G2, with a Map, Facsimiles and Illustrative Notes."
Of his new and corrected edition of "The Fcederalist," on which

1890.] Henry B. Dawson. 243

Mr. Dawson was engaged for a couple of years, of which, however,
only one large volume was issued, as well as- of the notable discus-
sion growing out of it in the JVeia York Evening Post, between
the Hon. John Jay and Colonel James A. Hamilton on one side,
and himself on the other, afterward published in an interesting
pamphlet at the expense of several wealthy gentlemen for gratuitous
distribution, our limits will allow us no more than merely to speak
in passing. It certainly throws light upon several debated questions.
Other publications successively issued must in like manner be omitted
from our sketch for want of space.

In the spring of 1805 he accepted the position of editor of The
ITonhers Gazette, which he held for about a year, until he was
obliged by illness to give it up. During that time, however, he made
the first page of the paper the vehicle for the publication of a vast
amount of interesting and important matter on different phases of
our Colonial and Revolutionary history, which rendered the paper
exceedingly valuable, so that files kept during that time commanded
a remarkable price, in one case fifty dollars having been offered for

a complete set. Many of these publications, particularly the series

on the capture and execution of Major Andre, were afterward
gathered up and issued in separate volumes. •

In 18 G 6 Mr. Dawson was drawn into the public discussion then
going on concerning the Boundary Line between the States of New
York and New Jersey, and he made a valuable contribution to the
published collection of papers, on one side or the other, which that
interesting debate called forth. The other writers, besides himself,
were General John Cochrane, Attorney General of the State of New
York, and the Hon. J. Romeyn Brodhead, the historian of New
York and Secretary of the New York Historical Society, on one
side, and the Hon. William A. Whitehead, historian of Perth Amboy
and Secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, on the other.
The Attorney General in his closing argument before the United
States Court paid a deserved tribute to Mr. Dawson for the service
he had rendered in throwing light upon the points at issue.

In the same year, 18 6 6, Mr. Dawson bought The Historical
Magazine, a well known Monthly devoted to discussions upon the
antiquities, history and biography of America. The publication
had been commenced in Boston, in January, 1857, under the able
editorial management of Mr. John Ward Dean, but had been re-
moved to New York in 1858. There it was edited in succession by
George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea and Dr. Henry 11. Stiles. It
had already gained for itself a place in the periodical literature of
the country, when the great Civil War broke out, which necessarily
withdrew from its support all its southern subscribers, including many
of its valued contributors, the loss amounting altogether to more
than one half of its entire subscription list. Unfortunately, those
whose names were still left on the books as subscribers, were, many

244 Henry B. Dawson. [July,

of them at least, such only in name. They were non-pay inn-
recipients of the work year after year, and appeared to think that
they were entitled to remain such. They had quite reversed the
saying, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." {

The first number of The Historical Magazine under Mr.
Dawson's editorial management was that of July, 1866. In the
following January, 1867, he commenced a "New Scries" of the
periodical, giving double the number of pages in each monthly issue,
and making two volumes per year, instead of* a single volume as
before. Into this work he threw his entire strength and intellectual
energy during several years in succession, gathering around him also
an array of distinguished voluntary contributors to its pages,
which had not been surpassed by the paid staff of any similar
publication in the country. The "Book Notices," sometimes ex-
ceeding a hundred in a single month, for which the Magazine soon
became famous, and sought after by librarians and bibliophiles, were
always written by Mr. Dawson himself. The effect of all this be-
came soon apparent in the more extended influence of the Magazine
as one of the recognized historical authorities in the country. Its
material support, however, was largely drawn from the students of
history in New England and New York ; those in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and the West seeming to take but little interest in sus-
taining it, and the South, where it had circulated before the war,
not having yet sufficiently recovered its strength to indulge in
luxuries, the income was insufficient to meet the expenses of publi-
cation, and so, after having issued what was equal to thirteen com-
plete volumes, Mr. Dawson decided to suspend its publication in
April, 1876.

At the same time that he was editing and publishing The His-
torical Magazine , Mr. Dawson was engaged in performing other
historical services of value to the public. Some years before he
had made a complete copy from the Clinton Papers of the pro-
ceedings in the trial of the notorious Joshua Ilett Smith before a
General Court Martial at Tappan, for the part which he had taken
in promoting the meeting at his house, back of Ilaverstraw, of
General Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre, and in assisting
the latter to effect his escape and return to Sew York. The record
itself which he copied was afterwards abstracted by some person un-
known from among the Clinton Papers, and could not be found.
Fortunately Mr. Dawson had previously taken his copy, and to
supply the want occasioned by the loss, he conceived and carried out
the idea of editing and annotating that copy of the trial, and having
it published in a volume by itself. It was issued in excellent style,
and entitled, "Record of the Trial of Joshua Ilett Smith, Esq., for
alleged Complicity in the Treason of Benedict Arnold, 1780.
Edited by Henry B. Dawson : Morrisania, 1866." He also edited
and published, later on, five handsome volumes under the title of

1890.]

Henry B. Daioson.

245

• The Magazine Miscellany," a selection of the more important his-
torical papers that had been published in The Historical Magazine.

Notwithstanding the natural delicacy of his constitution, and the
incessant labors to which his keen intellectual tastes and his indomi-
table energy impelled him, he enjoyed reasonably good health, with
the exception of a severe attack of pneumonia, until the summer of
1868, when, like several of his neighbors, he was prostrated with
malaria, produced by the opening of new streets in the vicinity of his
home in Morrisania. The ague and fever came as an unwelcome
visitor every second day during all the summer and autumn months,
confining him to his house and obliging him in his enfeebled condi-
tion to work at a great disadvantage in editing and publishing The
Historical Magazine. In 1869 he had a return of the same
trouble, and yet, singular as it may seem, it did not prevent him
from writing and publishing, one after another, a succession of
valuable contributions to our history. One was entitled, "The First
Blood shed in the American Revolution : the Battle of Golden Hill,"
a closely printed paper of twenty-one pages in small quarto, in which,
as in his paper entitled "The Sons of Liberty," before mentioned,
it was shown, so far as the known facts afford a basis of judgment,
that the first collision of the Royal forces with the Colonists where
resistance was made and blood shed, was in John Street, New York,
between Gold Street and Pearl, on January 19 and 20, 1770.

Mr. Dawson's ill health, however, was becoming gradually more
and more pronounced, and his literary activity and productiveness
correspondingly diminished, so that from f£76 titrtil 1684 he may be
said, in a sense, to have been withdrawn from the world, confined
to his house, and apparently a permanent invalid. Yet even then,
in those long days of bodily weakness, he wrote a searching review
of the second edition of Bolton's "History of Westchester County,"
which he published in numbers in the The Westchester Times, and
several articles on the "Early History of American Methodism,"
published in The Christ ian Advocate in New York city. In 1884
he was again pressed into the service by J. Thomas Scharf, A.M.,
LL.D., as one of the writers of the New History of Westchester
County, which that gentleman had projected, and which was finally
published in Philadelphia, in 1886. Mr. Dawson entered into the
undertaking with characteristic zest and vigor, and he furnished a
most valuable contribution to the work covering two hundred and
eighty-one large and closely printed pages on "Westchester County,
New York, during the American Revolution.", Although the limits
of the history did not allow him to bring down the narrative to a
later date than November, 1776, he lays bare, in a striking manner,
the hidden political springs behind many of the outward movements,
and adds largely to our knowledge of those times. It is said to be
the most ably written of all his historical works, and it was fitting
it should be so, as his last bequest to our country's history. Finis
coronat opus.

vol. xliv. 21

246 Henry B. Dawson, [July,

]

Like nearly all men who have pursued his line of effort, he in-
vC9ti"-ated and wrote upon many subjects, often extended and valu-
able papers, that have never been given to the world. Putting them
iill to<'Ct,her, the published and the unpublished, they present an
immense and almost bewildering mass of literary and historical
matter, requiring an amount of labor, at the very thought of which
any ordinary human being would stand appalled.

He received from many quarters the most gratifying tokens of
the appreciation and regard in which he was held for his services in
the promotion of our historical knowledge. One of these was so
peculiar, that it ought not to go unmentioned. It was a complete
list of the Governors of Pennsylvania from the settlement of the
colony down to the year 1870, including their pictures from
William Penn to John \V. Geary, with a mass of political and his-
torical statistics, all compiled and handsomely arranged in a bound
manuscript volume by William II. Egle, M.I)., connected as State
Librarian with the Government of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg. It
bears this dedication in black and red ink : " To Henry B. Dawson,
Morrisania, N. Y., This MS. Compilation is Respectfully Inscribed."
Although a stranger to Mr. Dawson, Dr. Egle accompanied his gift
with a letter written on a blank leaf at the beginning of the volume,
of which the following is a copy :

" Harrisburg, Penn'a,
My very dear Sir: September 17, 1860.

My veneration for what is true and valuable in History has
prompted me in compiling this unique affair. I offer it to you as a poor
tribute of my admiration for you us a faithful historian, of my respect for
you as a man of letters, and my sincere esteem for your personal worth.

.As ever your friend,
To Henry B. Dawson, Esq" William H. Egle.

As the writer has reason to know, it was a spontaneous tribute
that touched Mr. Dawson deeply. His services were recognized
also by more public resolutions of thanks tendered to him by many
organized bodies, and he was elected to honorary membership in a
long list of historical societies from Massachusetts to Minnesota.
In May, 1889, the Board of Trustees of Syracuse University re-
solved to confer upon him the honorary distinction of Doctor of
Laws, to be publicly announced at its commencement in the follow-
June. It was an honor that came too late. He died, as already
stated, on the 23d of May. It is said of Copernicus, that as he lay
on his death bed, only a few hours before he breathed his last, the
great work of his life, De Orbium Ccelestium Revolutionibus,
which had just come from the press at Nuremberg, was brought to
nun that he might see it, before his eyes should close forever upon
the light of time. He touched the book with his but half con-
scious hand, as if he knew what it was, and then in the next moment
sank into insensibility and passed away, only a day later in the same

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month, on May 24, 1543. Happier than he, Mr. Dawson saw the
tangible fruits of liis labor as they came from the press while he was
yet living, but he never knew of the academic laurel that was about
to be laid upon his brow. How the brightness of all human glory
grows dim, when the eye fails, and the heart sinks to rest, in life's
closing hour !

" Can storied urn, or animated bust,

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?"

Mr. Dawson was married on May 28, 1845, to Catharine, daugh-
ter of Abraham D. Martling and Esther Whelpley, his wife, of
Tarry town, Westchester County, New York. She belonged to one
of the oldest families in the county, whose lineage ran back to the
first settlers along the lower Hudson, and thence to an ancient Hol-
land ancestry, of which she had good reason to be proud. In 1885
the husband and wife commemorated the fortieth anniversary of their
wedding, and the writer of these lines was permitted to offer his
congratulations in these two brief stanzas, that had at least the one
merit of coming from the heart.

" Thank God for forty years of wedded life,

Of love and peace and sweet domestic cheer,
While the glad eyes of husband and of wife
Still see each other's face so long held dear.

I waft my greeting from the Hudson's shore,
- To where the Harlem's tides roll np and down, . -

And pray that Heaven may bless you more and more, " ' ■-/•• ''■-'. •.. . *

And all the coming years with goodness crown."

Mr. Dawson was a frank, ingenuous man, loving the truth, full of
benevolent feeling, and taking pleasure in being helpful to others
whenever it lay in his power. His vast stores of historical infor-
mation and his vast library were readily placed at the service of every
sincere inquirer who applied to him, and few have more reason for
gratitude than the writer of this sketch of his life. He has been
criticized, and it may be with a measure of apparent justice, for a
certain rigor of speech, which the French call tranefmnt . in the
exciting controversies into which he was drawn, and it must be con-
fessed that in the maintenance of his honest convictions he did some-
times strike hard, but, after all, his heart was full of generous
kindness to others, and it came out in manifold ways in the inter-
course of daily life. In his religious faith he was a Calvinist of the
old school, simple as a child in love and trust, and while resolute
and heroic in the public defence of what he believed to be true on
any subject, yet as gentle as a woman in his relations with his family
and friends. The atmosphere of his home was delightful, and there,
more than anywhere else on earth, his memory will be cherished by
surviving wife and children as a sacred inheritance and trust. As
he said himself, after his public labors had finally closed, he spent

248 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbroolc and others. [July,

the time in his home, setting his house in order "preparatory to
receiving the summons of his Heavenly Father," and entering into
rest.

His funeral took place from his late residence in Home Street,
Morrisania, New York city, on May 26, 1889, and was attended by
many men eminent in journalism and letters, who testified their
respect and sorrow. In conformity with his own request, expressed
while living, the services were conducted by his friend the writer of
this simple tribute, who delivered an address giving an estimate of
Mr. Dawson's character, life and worth. On the following day,
May 27th, all that was mortal was committed to the grave in the
burying ground of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow at Tarry-
town, and almost in the shadow of the Old Church itself. There
may they rest in peace, and awake at last in the resurrection of the
just !

Note. — This paper was read before tlie Tarrytown Historical Society, May
20, 1890.— Editor.

LETTERS OF COL. THOMAS WESTBROOK
AND OTHERS,

RELATIVE TO INDIAN AFFAIRS IN MAINE.

Communicated by William Blake Trask, A.M., of Dorchester.

[Continued from page 183.]

George Town April 6, 1723.
May it please your Honour,

You have herew th an Account of my Proceedings since my Last.
I waited at S* Georges in hopes y* M r Talbert whould have Arrived there
with Provision so that I might have took a suitable Number of men to y e
Eastward, but his Not Coming Oblidged me to come to Kenebeck and at
my Arrival at y e Mouth of the River I met him & ieft him there & came
hither where I had Appointed Sundry of the Officers to meet me whome I
met. I immeadiatly Enquired into y e State ol that part of the Army

w ch I found in a Miserable Condition, on

I call'd a Council of

Officers to know what might be best for the presant Service of the Gov-
ernment, the result whereof I send your Hon* a Coppy Inclosed. I
detained 140 men at S 1 Georges in Order to go further East when
should be Inabled by receiving provision, but when I came away from
there I left 30 or 40 of y m Exceeding Sick ; y e most p* of y m I hope on my
return I shall find so many well men as to return down East, over y e same
Ground I went before in part; & spend about 3 Weeks, and then Return
to George Town on Kenebeck river, to know Y re Honours further pleasure
about the Forces left at Kenebeck river & West of y e same. I formerly
Wrote y t I heard nothing of Cap* Harmon but only by Word of mouth, by
Cap* Penhallow. I have since seen him & he has given me his Journal &
tells me has sent you a Coppy of y e same, & at y e same time he shews me

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Westhroolc and others.

249

a few Lines w ch you hud Wrote to him on which I rejoyce that he has given
so good Satisfaction. I now send part of my Journal Imperfect being not
Compleated to this day, w ch I Intended, \v ch you will please to Excuse. I
trust your IIon r will look over all faults I having not had time to keep my
Journal forward, by reason of y° many y l are Sick and Inconveinances
Aboard. M r Wittemore who lias heitherto Assisted me in Writing, is
Sick, & has been so for a Considerable time, as for my own part I bless
God I still retain my health in a great measure & had a Design if y e Army
had remained so to have kept marching Constantly in the buck of the
country w th part of y e Army to Intercepted the Enemy in there hunting
Ground, & on there Carrying places, for this time of y e year being one of
their Cheif times for y r Hunting, & with the other part, I Intended to have
kept them on y c Sea Coast in Order to Intercept there fishing and fowling.
I have not received a Letter from y r Hon r since the 30 th of Jan y . I am
Induced to beleive y* you Wrote, me a line because Sundry of the Oifieers
tell me they have received Lett" from you. Lieu* Allen Informes me he
Desires a Dismission for himself. Cap* Heath Still Informes me of y e
faithfullness of M r Coleby one of his Serj ts whome you Order'd a Commis-
sion to be Wrote for. I beleive the Mistake was In the Penman, for I
found 2 Commissions for Capt Heath But none for M r Coleby. Cap 1 Heath
tells me he Should rejoyce if you Would give him a Commission to be his
Liev*. Liev* Winslow Notwithstanding being dropt went East with me &
Marcht to Pernobscout. I doubt not but he will make a good Officer & I
hope y r IIon r will bear him in Mind when there is an Oppertunity to Im-
prove him. Lieu 1 Moulton Informes me he has Wrote to you for a Dis-
mission from y e Service & likewise Urges me for leave for to go home. I
tell him I doubt not but you have thoughts of Advanceing of him as soon
as Oppertunity will permitt. By what Experience I have had of him &
y* Carracter I here of him I doubt not but he will make a good Officer.
S r my Extream hurry at present Will not Admit of any Enlargement.
Crave Referrence to Cap 1 Temple & Cap* Harmon who have yo r Liberty
for coming home. I am

Yo r Honours Most

Obed* Humble Serv*

Superscribed: [No signature.]

On His Majes ts Service
To the Honourable | William Dnmmer Esq r | Lieu* Governo r &
Commander | in Chiefe of the Prov j of the Massachusetts Buy | In Boston.

Coll. Westbrooks Lett r

April 6. 1723 Lodowick Mac^own

Mass. Archives, Vol. 51, pp. 378, 379.

Eusigne

[As Lieutenant Governor William Dnmmer was a prominent director in
the military operations of his day, as Commander in Chief of the forces in
Massachusetts and the Province of Maine, it is perfectly proper and just that
a brief biographical sketch of him should be given in connection with his letters
and careful instructions to Col. Westbrook and his companions. He was, in an
especial manner, so thoroughly identified with the plans and measures of the
various campaigns in the struggle at the Eastward, that the war itself is some-
times termed, by way of distinction, as " Hummer's Indian war."

The pioneers of the Hummer family, it is satisfactorily ascertained, came
from Bishopstoke, Hants, in England. Mr. Richard Dunrmer embarked on
board the ship Whale, Captain Graves j master, and arrived in Bostou harbor,
VOL. XLIV. 21*

250 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others. [July,

May 24, 1032, in company with the Rev. John Wilson, of Boston, who had made
a voyage across the Atlantic, and on his return brought Mrs. Wilson with him.
Mr. Dummer settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His wife Mary " was a Godly
woman," says the Apostle Eliot, but "was led away into the new opinions in
M ris Hutchinsons time." They went to Newbmy, tarried awhile and then re-
turned to Boston. She died soon after. Mr. Dummer married for his second
wife, in 1G44, Frances, widow of Rev. Jonathan Burr, of Dorchester. She died
Nov. 10, 1G82, aged 70 years. Richard Dummer soon became a prominent and
influential member of the community in Newbury and elsewhere, a colonial
magistrate and a man of much distinction in church and state. In May, 1G85,
the General Court ordered Mr. John Humphrey, Mr. John Endicott, Capt.
Nathaniel Turner and Capt. William Trask to set out a farm- for him, about
the falls of Newbury. Jeremiah, a gold or silver-smith, one of his sons, settled
in Boston. He was the father of Jeremiah and William. The former, author
of a " Defence of the New England Charters " (London, 1728, reprinted in 17G5),
was considered, in his day, "one of the most remarkable men New England
had then produced.'" His name " must ever hold an exalted place on the roll of
Massachusetts worthies." History is silent in relation to the boyhood of
William Dummer, or the educational advantages of his early manhood. Through
the successful interposition of Sir William Ashurst, we are informed, he re-
ceived an appointment from the Government to the high trust, and responsibility
of Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. The times were then at a fever heat.
Gov. Joseph Dudley, father-in-law T to Mr. Dummer, had just retired, after an
administration of fourteen years, from the arduous labors and duties of the
Governorship. The workings of the new charter, though on the whole favor-
able to the views and feelings of the colonists, Avas, in some important respects,
adverse to the spirit of many of the older politicians and former leaders and
partisans. Gov. Dudley's administration must have been, in not a few of
its relations, an unpleasant one. Simultaneously, as it were, with Dummer's
appointment, in 171(5, came the new Governor, Samuel Shute, to our shores,
whose advent and after career were marked by numberless disagreements and
controversies on the part of the people and his associates in ollice. He appar-
ently endeavored to act in a decisive manner, but was harassed and perplexed
in the plans of his administration to a degree greatly discouraging to his own
feelings and those of his personal friends. Gov. Shute having, in reality, much
of the military and commanding spirit in his composition, acted naturally, as has
been hinted, with promptness and determination. For six and more long years
he struggled, nobly, for the mastery. At length, discomfited and disheartened,
he embarked on board a small vessel, and sailed for England. He never re-
turned to this country, so far as we can learn, so that, nominally Governor for
about six years longer, or until the arrival of William Burnet, in 1728, Dummer
was, in reality, all that time, acting Chief Magistrate of the Colony of Massa-
chusetts. Historians give him the credit of working wisely and well. We
have not space to particularize. The circumstances of his position called for
activity of brain and strength of purpose. His executive abilitv must have
been great, as is well shown in his letters of instruction and suggestion, so
forcibly given for the action of Col. Westbrook and others, as they. -Up before
us. Niles, in his History of the French and Indian Wars Mass. Hist. Collections,
5th series, Vol. 5, page 345). says : " His excellency Governor Shute's ali'airs now
calling him home, the care and charge of the Government devolved on the
Honorable William Dummer Esq. Lieutenant Governor, whose prudence and
good conduct made him acceptable to all, through the whole course of his ad-
ministration. The first alteration he made was in commissionating Colonel
Westbrook as chief in the eastern anairs; who, February 10, marched to Penob-
scot, and Captain Harmon, at the same time, up Amanscoggin River."

In the winter of 1725-6, Gov. Dummer made a treaty with the Eastern Indians.
A peace was then established, which continued with but little interruption for
about twenty years. " Still the people were in fear, and frequently alarmed by
small parties of Indians, until the reduction of Canada, which put an end to
Indian wars in this part of the country." Gov. William Burnet being trans-
ferred from the government of New York and New Jersey to that of Massa-
chusetts, in 1728, assumed the oflice of Governor, and Mr. Dummer was, for a
time at least, relieved from its cares and responsibilities. The sudden death,
however, of. Gov. Burnet occurring on the seventh of September, 1720, Mr!

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1890.] Letters of OoL Thomas Westbrooh and others. 251

Dummer was again called upon to perform the official duties of the gubernato-
rial chair. By the appointment of William Tailcr, as Lieut. Governor, June 30,
1730, Mr. Dtmmier was once more, and finally, released, and on the 8th of
August, following, Jonathan Belcher was appointed Governor.

The residue of his years, being about thirty-one. Mr. Dummer spent, chiefly,
as we learn, in comparative retirement, surrounded by friends, and enjoying the
comforts and amenities of life, lie held his seat, it appears, at the council
board, and, through many sessions after, was among the first in rank and
position. At the ripe age of four score and four years, October 10, 1761, he
passed away, having lived through the continued administrations of Belcher,
Shirley, Phips, Pownal and Bernard.

His residence, says Shaw, was in Orange Street, near Hollis, in Boston.

He was buried in the Granary Burial Ground. Two extracts will be given
from the funeral sermon of his pastor, the Rev. Mather Byles : " How nobly, for a
shining course of years, did he till the first chair of government in the province,
with superior wisdom, and, I think, unrivalled acceptance and applause ! How did
he retire from it, followed with the gratitude and blessings of a whole people ! "
"This church can witness to the constancy and solemnity of his exemplary at-
tendance on the divine worship : while his honours to Christ will be still seen
here, on the communion table, and in the costly volume from which the word of
God is read every Lord's day. His death was of a piece with his life in the
large donations to publick and pious uses in his last will."

We quote from one of the Boston newspapers, of the day: — "The wise, in-
corrupt and successful administration of Mr. DUMMER, will always be remem-
bered with honor, and considered as a pattern worthy of the imitation of all
future governors."

In Cleaveland's Centennial Discourse, delivered at Newbury. Byfield Parish,
August 12, 18G3, this language is used: — " Scanty as our materials arc, there is
enough to show that tin; character of William Dummer Mas one of uncommon
symmetry. We discover no shining quality of mind — no prominent, out-crop-
ping virtue. But we do discern abilities equal to every emergency — a judgment
always calm and solid — great firmness — strict integrity and warm benevolence.
He may or may not have possessed those military capabilities, which, under
favoring circumstances, make a hero — but in civil atl'airs and governmental
administration, he undoubtedly showed, to a remarkable extent, that rare com-
bination of qualities, which, as exhibited on a broader stage, the world has since
learned to admire in George Washington."

Cotton Mather, in his letter to John Winthrop, dated Boston, May 1, 1725,
says : " We have no Intelligence worth a straw. I was going to say, No Intel-
lect. W r e are like to continue one year longer as we are — Inexpressibly Happy
in our L l Governor's [Bummer's] wise & Good Administration." — Mass. Hist.
Coll., viii. 458.

Another cotemporary writer, Dr. William Douglass, mentions Dummer as
one "whose good Administration is universally celebrated, and requires no
Encomium of mine : He is alive and in good Health at this present Writing," &c.

Hutchinson (Hist., ii. 308) speaks highly of Dummer. "His general aim was
to do public service."

Gov. Joseph Dudley compliments him, as " Mr. Dumer, who marryed my
Daughter, & for his many worthy qualities is as dear to me as if he were my
own Son."

" He was highly respected by all parties when their prejudices did not ope-
rate." " He was a man of such correct judgment and steady habits, such a firm
and temperate conduct, when he supposed himself right, that the vessel of state
was secure though exposed to the dangers of a tempestuous sea." — Rev. John
Eliot, D.D., in his Biographical Dictionary.

There is a portrait of Dummer in the volume (page 130) containing the pro-
ceedings (December 15, 1886), at "the commemoration, by King's Chapel,
Boston, of the completion of Two Hundred years since its foundation."

Rev. George Leonard Chaney, then Pastor of the Hollis Street Church, in
Boston, in a discourse to his congregation, preached December 31, 1870 (paire
6), says : " On May 2" 1 , 1742, the pastor, in the name of the Hon. William Dum-
nier, late Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief over this Province, pre-
sented the church with a large and rich folio Bible, on condition that it should
be read as a part of the publick worship on the Lord's day among us." The

* The short paragraph in Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. vii. Fifth scries, pn^e 103, from Judge
Sewall's Diary, as printed, in regard to William Dnmnier, may have a tendency to mislead,
without an explanation, Jeremiah being the Government Agent, and William, as is well
known, the Lieut. Governor in 1716.

The passage in the volume reads: "Am told that Mr. Wm. Dumer our Agent is Lieut
Govr." The original manuscript looks as though, at first, the Judge wrote ir, " Jer. Dumer
our Agent is Lt.Gov." then altered "Jer." to " Wm.", neglecting to strike out the
words ** our Agent."

252 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbroolc and others. [July,

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thanks of the church aro voted to the honorable donor for Ins " stately church
Bible," and one week later, May 9, 1742, rending from the Scriptures is intro-
duced. Gifts of silver for the communion table and font are acknowledged
from Thomas Hubbard, Silence Eliot, Gov. Dummer, Zachariah Johonnot."

Appropriate exercises, at the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of
Dummer Academy, were held at Newbury, Byfleld Parish, June 19, 1888, when
an address was delivered by Hon. William Hummer Northern!. — Register,
xliii. 112.

Dummer married April 2G, 1714, Catherine, third daughter of Gov. Joseph
Dudley, and sister of Rebecca Dudley. She died without issue, probably before
her husband, as he mentions in his will neither wife nor children. — Register,
x. 341. He was called second cousin to Judge Samuel Scwall.*

He appears to have been engaged, at times, somewhat extensively, alone or
with others, in matters of real estate, as the Suffolk Records of Deeds will show,
being grantor or grantee of property situated in or near the following named
streets or lanes in Boston, namely — Marlboro', School, Orange, Harvard,
" Treamont," King, Cambridge, Union Streets, Bishop's Lane, Long Lane, Frog
Lane; also in Dorchester, Dorchester Neck, Brookline, Needham, Oxford,
Woodstock, and perhaps other places, in the space of forty years, between 1717
and 1753. j

In 1719 Gov. Dummer was Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company, in Boston, Rev. John Webb, formerly Chaplain at Castle William, but
then minister at the New North Church, in Boston, preaching the sermon.

We close our sketch of Gov. Dummer with abstracts of his will, dated June
28, 1-756; proved November 6, 1761. He gives to Reverends Thomas Foxcroft
and Dr. Charles Chauncy of Boston, and Nathaniel Dummer of Newbury, all his
real estate in Newbury, rents and profits thereof to be expended in erecting a
Grammar School-house on the most convenient part of his farm, according to
the appointment of the then ministers of the Parish of Byfleld, so called, in
Newbury, and five of the principal inhabitants, freeholders, of said parish,
elected for that purpose: and after the house is built, the annual rents, &c,
to be towards the maintenance of a Grammar School Master in the school.

Legatees: — The sons and daughters of his sister, Anna Powell, widow. To
nephew Jeremiah Powell, nine hundred acres of land in North Yarmouth, county
of York. To the old brick Church in Boston, of winch Rev. Thomas Foxcroft and
Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncy are Pastors; to the Church of which Rev. Mather j

Byles is minister, annually to the ministers. To kinsman, Nathaniel Dummer,
kinswoman, Mary Oulton; Capt. John Larrabee, Lieutenant of Castle William;
kinsman. William Vans, son of Hugh Vans. To Reverends Foxcroft, Chauncy,
Samuel Mather, Mather Byles, Ebenezer Pemberton. Unto each of the ministers
of the Gospel within the Town of Boston, that lead in Divine service on Lords
days, without any exception, and unto Reverends Mr. Abbot and Prentice, of
Charlestown, a Gold Ring, of the value of twenty shillings Lawful Money. To
the poor of the Parish in Byfleld, of the old Church in Boston, and to the poor
of the Church of which Rev. Mr. Byles is Pastor. To Alexander Skene Esq.
formerly Secretary of the Island of Barbadoes, to Harvard College, Mrs. Sarah
Gerrish jun r ("she now living with me"). To Nephew John Powell his Gold
watCh, nephew William Powell his Gold Snuffbox; silver plate to the sons and
daughters of his sister Anna Powell. To his Nephew Jeremiah Powell the
Mansion iu which he then lived, with the land belonging; to said Powell his
Pew in Mr. Byles's meeting house, his Goods, Horses, Chariot and other Run-
ning Carriages, with their furniture, household stuff, &c. To heirs of Col
William Burt, late of the Island of Nevis.

The Hon. John Wheelwright, Andrew Oliver, Esq., and Ezekicl Goldthwait,
Esq., all of Boston, were the Executors to his will, which was witnessed by
Peter Johonnot, Gregory Townsend, Ezekiel Price.

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrooh and others. 253

For the "Family of Dummcr," by Col. Chester, see Register, Vol. xxxv.
254-271, continued in the same volume, paires 321-381. See also, Register, ix.
174, 175; xxvi. 402; xxxi. 423; xxxviii. 457; xxxix. 411; xli. 337. Am. Quar.
Reg., xv. 30C]

S r I have your Letters of the 2G th March & the 6 th Aprill & witli them
your Journall to the beginning of March. I am glad to see you keep soe
correct & regular accounts of your Proceedings. As soon as you receive
this you are forthwith to take an Exact p'fect Account of the Number of
your sick & well men seperate & give orders that the same bee done
respecting the Forces that are not in your p'ticuler detachment whether
Marching or Garrison Souldiers & Lett them bee sent Me as soon as possi-
ble & as soon as I shall receive the same you shall have further orders
from me in the mean time I approve of the marches you mention in which
I doubt not of your utmost dilligence & I hope you'l have the Success to
Meet with the Enimye in their Lurking Places. I am glad to hear soe
well of young Winslow. Leu. Carlile shall succeed Cap 4 Temple. I am not
unmindefull of Moulton, as soon as Lieu. Allen desires a dismission, Hee
shall have it & Coleby shall Succeed Him. Capt Sheeply writes me that
20 of His Company are Sick & that they are very 111 accomodated at
Arrowsick & that many of them will dye if they are long Continued there
& therefore Hee desires they may be removed to some other Place. This
affair I Leave wholly with you to dispose that Company as you shall thinke
most for the Service & for the Safety of the Poor Souldiers in which I de-
sire your Care.

Boston 15 rh Aprill 1723. [William Dummer.]

Coll. Westbrooke Mass. Archives, 72 : 82, 83.

Sir, Cpt. Shipley writes me y* twenty of his Comp a are sick & that they
are ill accomodated at Arrowsick, & many of them will die if they are
continued there, & therefore desires they may be removed to some other
Place; The Affair I leave wholly with you to dispose that Comp a as you
shall think will be most for the service & for the Safety of the poor Sol-
diers. I would have you take a perfect Ace 1 of the Number of y rr sick &
well men separately, And give Orders that the same be done respecting the
Forces that are not of y rr particular Detachment Whether Marching or
Garrison Soldiers & that the same may be sent me as soon as may be.

April 16, 1723. Y rr Serv*

Col. Westbrook. [William Dummer.}

Mass. Archives, 72, p. 87.

S r , By my first Instructions to you you were Directed to Continue
Your Marches after the Indians upon the Sea Coasts and among the Islands
to the Eastward of Kennebeck River untill the beginning of May next.
That time being near at hand and the Indians appearing in Several Parties
on the Frontiers, of which I have advices from Cap' Heath, Capt Barker,
L* Larrabee and others, and having latly Kill'd Three Persons and taken
two more I think it will be most for the Service and accordingly Order that
after you have left a Garrison of 15 men under the Command of a Lieu' at
the Fort in S l Georges River you forthwith return with the Forces to Ken-
nebeck River and Casco Bay and that you examine well into the Condition
of the Soldiers and such of them as are in so 111 a state of health as not

I have y" sev 11 Lett" of the 2 d , 3 d , 4 th & 5 th of June with the Journal &
other Acc t§ therein mentioned as well as those you sent heretofore. The
Journal have bin communicated to the Court, And what ever some detracting
ill minded People might suggest to the Judges the daily Acc t8 of y rr Pro-
ceeding will justify y rr Diligence & Conduct, Audiudeed I have asked some

254 Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others. [July,

like to be soon fit for Service, You are to discharge, in Case they are willing
to be dismiss'd, Provided that not less then Three Hundred Men be stiil
Retained in the service ; And you are not upon any Pretence whatsoever to
dismiss any others but such as are disabled by sickness as above without My
Express Order and for such you are to take the best Care you Can for their
Transportation. The forces being thus reform'd You are to imploy them in
Carefully guarding the People on the Frontiers in their Planting and other
Husbandry and in waylaying the Places where the Indiands are most likly
to Pass in their Coming upon the English being always Prepared to make
up a body to attack and Pursue the Indians in Case they should Come in
any Considerable Number; And as I approve of your Measures in
Endeavouring to secure the passes in Kennebec River I now direct you to
Continue your Scouts on that Quarter. This Sloop brings you a fresh
Supply of Molasses, meal, Rice &c. I have Ordered the Treasurer to Send
the More Molasses that you may Brew Spruce Beer for the People, which
I apprehend will do good both to the well and sick. Lieut Larrabee having
wrote me for a supply for ammunition he will Received it by this Sloop and
I desire you will give Effectual Orders that there be an equal Distribution
of all Stores and ammunition in all quarters. I having received Gomplaints
on that head from several Officers on this side Kennebeck. You have here
with a Commiss 11 for Capt Carlile to succeed Capt Temple which I disire
you will deliver him in the Usuall Form, and also a Commiss 11 for Sam 11
Jordan to be Lieut to Cap 1 Pecker. Your utmost Skill and Conduct will
be needfull to be exerted in this Juncture for Doubtless the Enemy when
they shall understand the sickly and weak Condition your [ ] is un-

der will make some Efforts to surpris us; In your Discharging the sick
Men, you must have Regard first to the Impress'd Men, Giving them the
Preference to those that are hired.

April 25, 1723. I

Post. It having been set forth that Ebenezer Boutel & Benjamin Reed
are sick Men, Let them be among the Number of those you discharge.
To Coll. Westbrook. Mass. Archives, 72 : 88-90.

Sir

I must repeat my Orders to you to keep your Men upon constant
Duty in Scouting on the Skirts of the Towns & lying Wait for the Enemy
in small Parties in such Places as it is probable thev will pass. Your
Knowledge of the Affairs of the Indian War, & particular Acquaintance
with those Woods were the Motives to me in Putting you upon that Station,
W ch some apprehend is not so proper for a Person whose private Concerns
ly so near. I hope your Diligence & Application to the service will con-
vince every Body of your Faithfulness in that Trust. If you can bring
your Men to be patient & silent in their Marches & Ambushes I shall hope
some Thing may be done for the Aunoyance of the Enemy, Otherwise little
is to be expected. Mass. Archives, 72: 92.

[Letter to Co 1 Westbrook, June, 1723.]

1890.] Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook and others. 255

of the Judges about the Story, & they tell me they never heard any Tiling
of it. I think it is reasonable that the Captains as many of them as can
be spared sh d have Liberty to come to Town to pass their Musters & ac-
cordingly you may permit as many of them as you think consistent with
the safety of the service, Cpt. Shepley, Ward, Barker & Carlisle have writ-
ten to me for Leave. Cpt. Pecker now returns to you, And if Hill the
Surgeon can be spared, let him come: As to y rr self, I think you had better
stay a little while longer till some of these Officers are return'd, And I shall
not forget to send for you, when it will be for y rr Service And am
Y rr affectionate Friend & Serv*
Boston June 11, 1723. W m Dummer.

Coll. Westbrook. Mass. Archives, 72 : 94.

Sir

You are Directed to give Orders to y e commanding Officers of the
sev 11 Forts & Garrisons in the Eastern Parts that upon the Appearance of
any of the Eastern Indians under a Flagg of Truce set on a Pole or Staff,
they permit them to come safely into their respective Forts or Garrisons,
& forthwith give you Notice thereof, & You are thereupon to take Care that
they be safely conducted in some Sloop to Boston without Delay & put a
Guard of Soldiers aboard such Sloop in Proportion to the Indians that may
come in.

You must shew y a Indians of y c Five Nations a particular Respect if any
of y m sh d come in w th the Eastern Indians.

You must chuse out a discreet able Man to Command the Guard that
attend the Messengers & instruct him to use those of the 5 Nations with
great Kindness and Friendship & to see that they are well provided for in
their Passage. Y" Serv*

June 18, 1723. W m Dummer.

Coll. Westbrook. Mass. Archives, 72: 96, 97.

S r

I have Receiv'd Your sev 11 Letters of June 11 th , 14, 15, 22, 27, 28
& 30 ; with the Account of the Mischief done at Black point & N° : Yar-
mouth. M r Pike also acquaints Me, that M r Dom: Jordan, was Assaulted
& wounded by the Indians ; as they are more then Ordinary Set upon Mis-
chief, at this Juncture I should be Glad some Vigorous Effort may be made
upon them at their coming on or Going off, & therefore Expect that my
former Orders be followed Diligently as tho. there were No PLxpectatious
of their Submission which is a Great Uncertainty. And Whereas the
Companies are Reduced by Sickness, Desertion &c. to a smaller Number
than they Ought to Consist of, I direct You forthwith to reform the said
Companies Under your Command & make them up Fifty Men each, under a
Cap* & Lieu*: the Remaining Officers to be reduced or Dismissal as they
shall think fit, You must Give a Preference to the Officers according to
their Seniority, & not break in upon that Rule, Unless there be any
Younger Officers that are more than Ordinary Useful in the Service (In
Which Case I Allow of their being Continued), or any elder Officers are
willing to be Discharged. Let this Reform be made without Delay.

Y rr Servt:

Boston July 5 th 1723. W m Dummer.

Mass. Archives, 72: 100, 101 [A Copy].

•

25G

Knapp' $ Life of Timothy Dexter.

[July,

Your Letter of the 6 th Instant with the Advice of the Indians seen
near M r Scainmons Garrison &c I rec d

Last Week By Major Moodey I sent you Orders to reform the sev 11
Companies under y rr Command & to make them up Fifty each under a
Cant" & Lieu 4 & the Rem a Officers to be reduced or dismiss'd (as they shall
Chose) Preference to be given to the Officers according to y r Seniority Un-
less there be any younger there than ordinary useful in the Service (in
w ch you were allow'd to continue them in their Command) or there be any
Elder willing to be discharged;* And 1 did particularly Direct to the Con-
tinuance of Cpt Carlisle in Case you hold y rr good Opinion of him. I hope
these Orders are rec d & put in Execution. If not let the matter be done
without Delay. ,;,-,/., ".^ [No signature.]

Superscribed : —

Lett r to Coll. Westbroke. Mass. Archives, 72 : 102.

July 17, 1723.

[To be continued .]

KNAPPS LIFE OF TIMOTHY DEXTEIL

By William C. Todd, A.M., of Atkinson, N. H.

THE life of Timothy Dexter, now a very rare book, was written
by Samuel L. Knapp, a graduate of Dartmouth College, class
of 1804, a lawyer and one of the best-known literary men of his
time. Knapp settled in Newburyport as a lawyer in 1808, only
two years after Dexter died and when his notoriety was at its height,
and was in a position to learn all that could be known about him.
He had seen Dexter, and in the preface states : "All the dramatis
personce were well known to me, and were the subjects of my par-
ticular study," and that he wrote his book from " memoranda made
many years ago." His account of Dexter is that he was appren-
ticed as a leather dresser in Charlestown ; that he commenced busi-
ness for himself in that town at twenty-one ; that he soon after mar-
ried a widow Frothingham, who had some property and aided him
by keeping a huckster's shop ; that by industry and fortunate spec-
ulations in continental money, state securities, &c. &c», taking hints
from Gov. Hancock and Thomas liussell, the most eminent mer-
chant of that day, he became rich ; that, failing to receive the social
standing of these men to which he thought himself entitled, he sought

t * It may be noticed that there is, occasionally, a repetition in the instructions or direc-
tions given by Governor Dummer to Colonel Westbrook. We prefer to have these stand
just as written by Dummer, taking particular pains to use his rough notes, when wc hud
them, interlined and corrected, doubtless, by himself, and to publish them as they stand
in the original, in the archives. Much valuable correspondence, on both sides, has been
lost to the world, as Ave gather from references to letters stated to have been sent, but
now unseen.

These few repetitions of Gov. Dummer to his trustv officer serve also to show the per-
sistency and zeal with which he advocated those military measures, oft times painful in
suggestion and execution, which tho exigencies of the times required.

1890.] Knapp's Life of Timothy Dexter. 257

a new home where he would be better appreciated, and came to
Newburyport, "bought two palaces," one of which (now the public-
library building) he occupied for a short time, and then moved to
the other, which he elaborately decorated with images, &c. &c.
Knapp narrates, also, all the well-known speculations by which Dex-
ter, in his " Pickle for the Knowing Ones," explains how he made
his money, as of undoubted accuracy, and his statements have always
been so received, even in Newburyport.

In the article on Dexter in the October number of the Register,
1886, the writer gave reasons why the oft-repeated speculations could
only be regarded as Dexter's lies, or jokes, but the main events of
his life were assumed to be as Knapp gave them. An examination,
however, shows that even here the life is full of errors.

Mr. O. P. Dexter, of New York City, has traced out very care-
fully the genealogy of the Dexter family, and I am indebted to him
for calling my attention to the many errors in Knapp's Life. In a
communication he says : " Timothy Dexter, son of Nathan and
Esther (Brintnall) Dexter, was born at Maiden, Mass., Jan. 22,
1746-7. I have never seen any proof that he lived in Charles-
town. If any one will examine the land records of Exeter, N. H.,
he will find that Stephen Noyes of Ilampstead mortgaged land at
Chester to Jonathan Mulliken and Timothy Dexter, f leather dresser,
of Newburyport,' March 16, 1770. He married May, 1770, later
than the mortgage above given, Elizabeth, widow of Benjamin
Frothingham, and daughter of Deacon John and Abigail (Gilman)
Lord of Exeter, N. II. Mr. Benjamin Frothingham seems to have
died at Newburyport, so the marriage of Timothy Dexter probably
took place at Newburyport, Newbury or Exeter. The land records
of Exeter mention Timothy Dexter a3 of Newburyport in 1779,
1780, 1784, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1795." These dates, it will be
seen, cover nearly all the business life of Dexter.

I have had the land records of Salem examined, and they show
that, Jan. 2, 1770, a deed was given by William Wyer, mariner,
to "Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, leather dresser, for 59 pounds
8 shillings," and at different later dates are many conveyances, in
which Dexter is styled " leather dresser," then " trader," " merchant "
and *' gentleman," — rising in dignity with increase of wealth, though
the last designation seems a strange misnomer.

I have in my possession an indenture dated Feb. 9, 1785, by
which " Timothy Dexter of Newburyport leather dresser " covenants
to sell his interest in " four undivided fifth parts of a certain dwelling
house, barn, and of the land under, adjoining and belonging thereto,
and also all the said Timothy's right, title and interest in and to cer-
tain three acres of land, all the premises being situate in Exeter, in
the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, and beino-
the whole estate that was taken by an execution issued on a judg-
ment recovered by said Timothy against Daniel Gilman of the same
vol. xliv. 22

258 The Banks Family of Maine. [July,

•
Exeter leather dresser * * * on payment of the sum of two hun-
dred and thirty-three pounds lawful money of the State of Massa-
chusetts, &c."

This indenture was signed by the two parties to it, Timothy Dex-
ter and Samuel Sawyer, and also by the celebrated Theophilus Par-
sons as a witness, who wrote the paper. \

At the earliest dates above given, Dexter was only twenty-three
years of age, yet he had been in business long enough to invest in
real estate, not only in Newburyport but also in New Hampshire.
There can be no room to question, then, that though he may have
learned his trade in Charlestown, he commenced business at Newbu-
ryport, and that all his money was made there. I remember a few
years ago an old gentleman told, me that his father was associated
with Dexter, and related anecdotes of him when poor, and living in
an humble way as a leather dresser in one of the poor sections of
the town, which I could not reconcile with Knapp's Life.

The Dexter, then, of Knapp's Life and of common belief, the
fool who made his money by senseless speculations that always
turned out well, is a fiction. There is not the least evidence in sup-
port of his stories but his own word. He was not in a position to
get hints from Gov. Hancock and Russell, and he never had the
wealth to engage in large operations, for his estate at his decease
was valued at only $35,000, of which his real estate was $12,000.

The real Dexter, with all his folly, acquired his property as other
people do — by prudence, industry and business sagacity, which gave
him a fortune for that period. Towards the close of his life, his
vanity, ignorance and drunken habits led him into foolish display
and eccentricities, and to increase the wonder he told the stories that
have given him such wide and peculiar notoriety, and which have
been so strangely credited. As a man he was worthless, and only
deserves the space devoted to him as an example of erroneous bio-
graphy and tradition, of which so much still remains accepted.

THE BANK(E)S FAMILY OF MAINE.

By Charles-Edward 7 Banks M.D. (Dnrt.), Passed Assistant Surgeon,
TJ. S. Marine-Hospital Service.

EICHARD 1 BANKES, the emigrant ancestor of this family in Maine,
was an early settler of Agamenticus (York), undoubtedly before the
summer of 1643, living in that part of the town known as " Scituate," the

other division being designated

Z^Yj • C^s. C- - C "Scotland." These local names

-2* I tT& tiiP^ *0 \ Ct r* f*^P are probably derived from the

£_) *? t~ .;— f ' I previous residence of the people

who settled there, and in the case
of Richard Bankes it appears that in company with Abraham Preble, and

1890.] The Banks Family of Maine. 259

Thomas Curtis, at some time prior to his settlement in Maine he took the
oath of fidelity at Scituate, Mass. (Plymo. Col. Rec. viii. 183). With one
of these fellow emigrants, for such I judge them to be, he appears in
Gorgeana (York), purchasing in partnership, July 19, 1645, with Abraham
Preble, John Twisden, his brother-in-law, aud Thomas Curtis; and Novem-
ber 20th, of the same year, tracts of land of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the
Lord Proprietor, and of William Hooke, one of the patentees (York
Deeds, i. 101 ; ii. 179). Finding no evidence of the residence of Richard
Bankes in Scituate, I assume that the record of his oath of fidelity in that
town is merely the result of a temporary sojourn there, perhaps among
friends, before he chose his final home in New England ; and it is of interest
to note in this connection that his companion Abraham Preble married
Judith Tilden of Scituate, daughter of the emigrant Nathaniel, and that an
Elizabeth Bankes, who may have been a sister of Richard, married William
Blackmore of Scituate in 1666, and for her second husband Jacob Bum pus
of the same place. This seems to explain the local origin of the name
"Scituate " as a section of the old town of York, Maine.

Richard Bankes in his day and generation lived the life of an average
man, assuming his share of the burdens and responsibilities of ollice as a
citizen. It will be only necessary to group these public functions which he
performed: — Provincial Councillor 1651, 1652, under the administration of
Governor Edward Godfrey ; Selectman, 1653, 1654, 1656, 1650, 1676, 1679,
1680; Juror, 1649, 1653, IG55, 1656, 1658, 1661, 1662, 1664, 1665, 1668,
1669, 1671; Trial Justice or " Commissioner," 1669, 1672, 1679; Court
Appraiser, 1659, 1663, 1671, 1676, 1679, 1681, 1686, 1691, besides
several other special appointments, as Tax Commissioner 1652, Overseer
of County Prison 1673. He became a Freeman of Massachusetts at the
time of the usurpation proceedings 1652, and in 1681 appears in a list of
inhabitants swearing allegiance to the King. He figures once in Court
(1654) as a defendant in a suit of trespass, involving the title to some marsh
land in York, and was defeated and mulcted for costs of the suit. In 1673,
with Edward Rishworth, he was the joint signer of a letter to the churches
inviting delegates to a council to settle the Rev. Shubael Dummer, H. C.
1656 (his brother-in-law, they having married sisters), as pastor of the
church at York. His last public act was as an appraiser, 3 April, 1691
(Y. R. v. i. Gr)). The date of his death is not positively known, except that
it occurred in 1692 (York Deeds, vi. 123) ; and as that was the year of the
terrible Indian massacre, January 25, 1691-2, when 137 inhabitants of
York were either killed or carried captive to Canada by the Ravages, his
pastor and relative being among the dead, it is extremely probable that he
met his fate also in that tragedy which sent such a shudder throughout New
England.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Alcock of York
(vide Genealogy, Register, xxxvi. 400), who survived him several years,
but the date of her death is also unknown. By her he had the following
children, whom I have arranged below in an arbitrary precedence, based
upon the priority of their appearance in the public records, for there is no
record of their births known to me:

2. i. John. 2 3. ii. Samuel. 4. iii. Job.

5. iv. Joseph, b. 1GG7 (deposes aged 60 in 1727).

2. John 2 {Richard 1 ), probably the eldest son, as in a family document
he signs first (York Deeds, vi. 123), lived in York where he had a
town grant of land in 1678, being then undoubtedly of age, which

2G0

TJie Banks Family of Maine,

[July,

would put his birth at or before 1Go7. He was a signer to a petition
to the General Court of Massachusetts, 1679, concerning the political
troubles in Maine; Selectman of York, 1693; Grand Juror, 1692,
IGO'3, 1701 and subsequent years. lie married twice, but the name
of his first wife is unknown; for second wife lie married Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter and Sarah (Saunders) Turbat, of Wells (York
Deeds, xii. 142), who survived him. His will, dated September
22, 1724, was probated April 8, 1726 (York Probate, iii. 200), and
her will, dated 1737, was probated 18 July, 1738 (Ibid. v. 14o). He
had the following children:
(By first wife) : ,

i. Elizabeth, 3 called " my Daughter in Law, my late Husband's Daugh-
ter" in will of the second wife- She m. Nehemiuh Clausen of
Lebanon, Conn, before 1738 (York Deeds, xxx. 11).

ii. John, d. s. p. probably, before 1719.

(By second wife) :

6. iii. Moses.

iv. Hannah, m. Benjamin Jacobs of Salem and "Wells, June 15, 1750.

7. v. Aaron. vi. Mary.

3. Samuel 2 {Richard 1 ), undoubtedly a son of the emigrant, although

there is no positive proof at present known, was born before 1650
certainly, as in 1G80, when he must have been of age, he was a
defendant in court. He resided at Cape Neddick, York, and was a
ship-builder. He appeared before the bar of justice a number of
times for various offences and in divers litigations, and in 1G85 was
found guilty of "impudently glorying in his own wickedness."
(York Court Records.) He was an appraiser, 19 March, 1690—1.
(York Deeds, 5, GG.) As nothing is heard from him after 1G92,
the year of the massacre, it is probable that he perished with the
victims at Cape Neddick, the. scene of the greatest butchery in the
York tragedy. He was unmarried, probably, as no descendants are
known.

4. Job* {Richard 1 ). The same remarks as to Samuel's relationship

with the emigrant apply to this person. Nothing is known of him
except that he was fined for cursing in 1G84, and after that he disap-
pears completely from the records, probably perishing in the York
massacre.

5. JoSK.rn 2 {Richard 1 ), born about 16G7. as bv a deposition in 1727

(York Deeds, xii. 148), lived and died in York. He was a man of
considerable influence in the town, and by his marriage became a
landed proprietor in Saco and other Eastern settlements. He was
styled Lieutenant in legal documents, a title doubtless gained by
military service in the early French wars. His wife, whom he mar-
ried, February 28, 1G94, was Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Cu minings) Harmon of York, and granddaughter of
Capt. Richard Bonython (see Genealogy, Register, xxxviii. 50-G)
of Saco. He died about 1744, but the precise date is unknown.
By his wife Elizabeth, he had the following children:

13. i. Jon, 3 b. Feb. 27, 1(595.

14. ii. Samuel, b. June 25, 1007. [1745.
iii. Taiutha, b. Feb. 12, 1702; m. Samuel Bragdon, Jr., and d. Dec. 28,
iv.j/LvDiA, b. Jan. 28, 1705; m. John Card.

v. Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1708 ; m. Daniel Bragdon, 1733.

1890. j The Banlcs Family of Maine. 261

vi. Joseph, b. Sept. 12, 1711; probably d. young,
vii. Elizabeth, b. 1714; d. Aug. 30, 1720.
viii. Richard, b. 1719; d. March 17, 1721.

6. Moses 8 {John, 2 Richard 1 ), born about 1690, resided upon the family

homestead in York throughout his life. He is variously styled
gentleman, yeoman and mariner in legal documents and Lieutenant
upon the town book. This military title came to him for service as
Lieutenant of Colonel Thomas Westbrook's Company 1722-5, de-
tailed to range the district of Maine from the Kennebec to the
Penobscot to prosecute " the Eastern Indians for their many breaches
of covenant." [Mass. Arch. xci. 136-8.] He married, 1712, Ruth,
daughter of Elias and Magdalen (Hilton) Weare, who w r as b. Janu-
ary 6, 1606-7 [York Deeds, xiii. 142] and who survived him as
late as 1763. [Mass. Arch. Ixxx. 291.] His will, dated March 12,
1749, was probated November 23, 1750. [York Probate, viii. 77.]
He had, by wife Ruth, the following children:

8. i. Joshua, 4 b. Sept. 13, 1713.

ii. Elias, b. Aug. 9, 1715; d. Feb. 1, 1725.

iii. Maky, b. Sept. 12, 1717; m. Francis Bettes, Aug. 13, 1735.

9. iv. John, b. March 12, 1722.

10. v. Elias, b. Sept. 9, 1725.

vi. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 7, 1727; d. May 21, 1752, of small-pox.

11. vii. ZebEdiaii, b. May 7, 1730.

12. viii. Moses, b. July 24, 1732.

ix. Elizabeth, Jan. 11, 1734-5; m. Benjamin Milliken, Aug. 26, 1754.

x. IIutii, b. Jan. 18, 1730-7; m. Elias Weare, April, 1760.

xi. Richaud, not mentioned in father's will, but called son by widow
Ruth in 1763. [Mass. Arch. Ixxx. 291.] He died December 4,
1762, of a fever contracted in the service during the French and
Indian Wars.

7. Aauon 3 (John, 3 Richard 1 ), born about 1695 in York, was a mariner

by occupation. He was in the service of the Province, 1717, under

Sir William Pepperell, and died 1763 at York, where he resided

throughout his life. He married Mary Haines, to whom he was

published February 12, 1726, by whom he had, probably, more

children than the compiler has been able to discover, viz.:

i. Aaron, 4 b. June 1, 1738; m. Mary Perkius of York, July 6, 1764, and

died at Penobscot, Aug. 9, 1823. He served in the wars of 1759-

1764, and the next year settled at Bagaduce, Me. He left an only

daughter and no male issue (Brooks's History of Castiue, Brooks-

ville and Penobscot, 200) .

8. JosnuA 4 (Moses? John 2 Richard 1 ), born September 13, 1713, married

Mary Muchmore, September 18, 1737. His descendants, through the
emigration of several of his sons before the Revolutionary War,
reside in Nova Scotia, but the record of only a portion of his children
has been ascertained, viz.:

i. Joshua, 5 bapt. Nov. 4, 1750. . |

ii. Joseph, bapt. May 11, 1751-2.

iii. Elizabeth, bapt. July 21, 1753.

iv. Jeremiah, bapt. July 20, 1755.

v. Mosks, bapt. Oct. 22, 1758.

9. John 4 (Moses, 9 John, 2 Richard 1 ), born March 12, 1722, lived in York,

where he married Hannah Preble, March, 1751, and had the

following children :
1. Phebe,* bapt. Nov. 12, 1752. ii. Hannah, bapt. May 28, 1758.

VOL. xliv. 22*

i, { y> The Banks Family of Maine. [July,

10. Klias 4 (Moses, 3 John? Richard}), born September 9, 1725, removed to

Scarboro', where he married Lydia Dresser of that town, January
5 1748. He was a sea-faring man, being master of the sloop
"Willing Mind" in 1747.

11. ZebEPIAH* (Moses? John? Richard 1 ), born May 7, 1730; lived in

York, and married Abigail M uchmore, January 1G, 1753, by whom
he had : ~——

i. Zebediaii, 5 born 1754, who was a volunteer seaman in the armed
ship " America," a privateer under the command of William Coffin,
1789. He w T as described in the list as aged 26, dark complexion,
height 5 ft. G inches. [Mass. Arch. xl. 58.] lie died s. p.
ii. Zebulox, bapt. Sept. 5, 1756.
?iii. Pelatiaii, m. Sarah Avery, April 27, 1775.

12. Moses 4 (Moses? John? Richard 1 ), born July 24, 1732, in York, re-
moved before 1757 to Arundel (Kennebunkport), where he had
married, November, 1754, Phebe, daughter of Jacob and Abigail
(Bracey) Curtis and granddaughter of Ephriam and Elizabeth
(Kilbourne) Curtis of Rowley, Mass. He removed about 17G0 to
Scarborough, where for many years he practised his profession of
Engineer and Surveyor, occasionally teaching in the schools. The
historian of Scarborough says of him: ft He was well known in this
vicinity as an excellent surveyor and draughtsman; and we have
seen plans executed by him which nearly equal engravings in their
neat finish." (Southgate, History of Scarborough, 20G; comp., Fol-
som, Saco and Biddeford, 287.) He enlisted May 7, 1775, eighteen
days after the battle of Lexington, and was commissioned as Quarter-
master in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment. He was promoted
to the rank of 1st Lieutenant January 1, 17 7G, by commission from the
Continental Congress, and saw service at Fort George, Ticonderoga,
New York. After the war he resided in Scarborough, later in
North Yarmouth, and died in Saco, at the residence of one of his sons,
October 9, 1823, at the ripe age of 01 years. He was a Revolutionary
pensioner, His wife died April 4, 1814. They had the following
children :

i. Jeremiah, 5 bapt. Aug. 1, 1762.

ii. Bracey, b. Feb. 15, 1765; in. Sarah, daughter of Elisha and Jane
(Libby) Berry. Oct. 23, 1788; d. Oct. is, 1827; she d. Nov. 1805.

iii. Moses, bapt. April 25. 1768; d. younir.

iv. Elizabeth, m. John Waterhouse of Scarborough.

v. Elias, b. Sept. 11, 1771; to. Lucretia, dausrhter of David and
Elizabeth (Oakes) Frince, Jan. 17, 1805. lie was a physician and
practised his profession in North Yarmouth and Danville. Me. He
died Feb. 9, 18-11, and his widow March 15. 1872. The grandfather
of the compiler of this genealoiry.

vi.? Lydia, m. Jacob Wilders of Arundel, Julv 8, 1772.

vii. Moses, b. 1770; m. Nancy Milliken, Aug. 1793. .

viii. Jacob, bapt. June 22, 1777; d. young.
. ix. Jacob, b. Feb. 27, 1783; m. Reliance Edgecomb, Oct. 3, 1805, and d.
March 28, 1861, at Farsonstield, Me.

13. Job 3 (Joseph? Richard 1 ), born February 27, 1695; resided in York,
where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Martha
(Winchester) Card, born November 19, 1699, and died March 17,
1731-2. His will, dated April 3, 1770, was probated January 6,
1772. (York Probate, xii. 170.) He had the following children:

1890.]

The Banks Family of Maine.

2G3

i. Elizabeth, 4 b. Nov. 18, 1723; d. in infancy.

ii. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1724; m. Joseph Frcethy, September, 1745.

iil. Samuel, b. April 6, 1727; d. March 28, 1728.

15. iv. Samuel, b. Feb. 13, 1728-9.

16. v. Richard, b. Sept. 9, 1731.
vi. Martha.

vii. Maky, m. Charles Bane, Aug. 29, 17G5.

16.

14.

17.
18.

17.

Richard 4 (Job, 3 Joseph, 2 Richard 1 ), born September 9, 1731 ; resided
in York, and married there September 20, 1755, Elizabeth "Webber,
by whom he had the following children:

i. Hannah,* b. Oct. 8, 1756; m. Daniel Lunt, March 17, 1776.

ii. Tabitiia, b. Aug. 18, 1758; in. James Bean, Aug. 23, 177S.

iii. Lydia, b. Aug. 20, 17G0; m. Timothy Littlefield, Feb. 1783.

iv. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1702; d. in infancy.

v. Mary, b. Oct. 7, 17G4; m. Benjamin York of Frenchman's Bav, Me.

vi. Joseph, b. Feb. 9, 17(57; d. Oct. 24, 1851.

vii. John, b. June 9, 1709; m. Abigail Fogg of Scarboro' (b. 1770, d.
Sept. 23, 1792). He d. May 22, 1844. "

viii. Euth, b. June 21, 1772; m. William Beedle, Oct. 19, 1776.

ix. Job, b. June 12, 1774 ; d. s. p.

x. William, b. Dec. 12, 177G; m. Lydia Woodbridge.

xi. Richard, b. Feb. 3, 1779 ; m. Elizabeth Westcott.

Samuel 3 (Joseph, 2 Richard 1 ), b. June 25, 1G97; resided in York
during the early part of his life and married there, Sarah, daughter
of Stephen Webster of Newbury, Mass. (int. pub. September 21,
1728). About 1735 he removed to Saco, where he settled on the
HarmoD estate which his father had acquired by marriage as above
noted. (Folsom, Saco and Biddeford, 119.) He was a town officer
in 1744. By wife Sarah he had the following children:

i. Joseph, 4 b. Oct. 19, 1729.

ii. Samuel, b. Sept. 1, 1731.

iii. Sarah, b. May 14, 1734.

iv. Elizabeth.

Joseph 4 (Samuel, 3 Joseph, 2 Richard 1 ), born October 19, 1729 ; resided
at York until six years of age, when he went to Saco with his
parents where he married Hannah Stackpole of Biddeford, Novem-
ber 26, 1754, who was a sister of his brother Samuel's wife. He
had the following children:

i. Sarah, 6 bapt. Sept. 2G, 175G.

ii. Jonx, bapt. Dec. 4, 1757.

iii. Joseph, bapt. April 7, 17G0

iv Elias bapt. May 23, 1762.

v. Hannah. vi. Patience.

18.

m. Olive Cole, 1784, and d. 1844.

vii. Ann. viii. Samuel.

Samuel 4 (Samuel 3 Joseph, 2 Richard 1 ), born September 1, 1731, in
York; removed to Biddeford with his parents and married there
Phebe Stackpole, April 15, 1761, by whom he had the following
children :

i. Lydia,* bapt. June 20, 17G2.

ii. Samuel, d. s. p.

iii BETHiAn, m. Samuel Thompson.

iv. Mary, num.

v. Cummings, b. 1770; m. 1st, Mary Edgecomb, Jan. 31, 1796; m. 2d,

Mary Foss.
vi. James, d. s. p.
vii. Jane, unm. [ viii. Sarah, unm.

201 Sextons' Booh, First Church, Elizabeth, IT. J. [July,

" 1

\ It

RECORD BOOK OF THE SEXTONS OF THE FIRST PRES-
BYTERIAN CHURCH OF ELIZABETHTOWN, ESSEX
COUNTY (NOW ELIZABETH, UNION
COUNTY), NEW JERSEY,

Communicated by Edmund Janes Cleveland, of Hartford, Conn.

N. B. The other church record books were consumed (or lost) with the
parsonage and church which were burned by British soldiers, Feb. 25,
1779, and Jan. 25, 1780. The Sextons' Book — record by the sextons of
burials in the church buryiug-ground — is labelled :

Deaths E. Town.

NAMES.

AGE

DEATH.

DISEASE.

William Woodruff Sexton

1766

Wife of Elijah Davis

April

Child of Abraham Meeker /

Child of Benjamin Magie

May

Child of Rev* 11 Mr. Caldwell

Mother of George Price

2 children of John Conner

July

Wife of Ichabod Grummon

Child of David Crane

Aug*

Child of a Soldier

i — i

Child of Samuel Williams

Child of J*4«* [thus erased] Cooper

i — I

Woodruff

-u

Wife of Capt. James Lyon

«a

Child of Matthias Ogden

Sept.

<+3

Dau T of James Lyon

Harry son of Capt. Elias Dayton

Brother of John Ross

Child of Robert Ogden

S
i i

do. of Benjamin Winans

Son of Abraham Winans

Child of Jona. Winans

Oct.

Wife of Jonathan Dayton

Grandfather of Nathan Woodruff

Nov.

Baldring

1 1

Child of Moses Price

Child of Nathaniel Bond

Child of Isaac Arnett

Dec.

1767

Child of dan. of Benf Crane

Mar.

Timothy Woodruff

Aug.

1890.] Sextons' Booh, First Church, Elizabeth, N. J. 265

NAMES.

AGE DEATH.

Child of David Crane

Daughter of

Stephen Crane Esq.
Wife of Matthias Lyon

Wife of Lisby

Timbrill
Samuel Woodruff Esq.
David Williams
Child of Dickerson

Child of Elihu Dudley

Hinds
Wife of Caleb Ilalsted

James Woodruff

of Ural Woodruff

A soldier

Old Griffin
Child of Jonathan Crane

Susanna Miller
Child of James Carmicle
Child of Benj" Hatfield
' Child of Joseph Meeker'
Child of a soldier
Wife of Ezekiel Woodruff
Father of Charles Tooker
Dau. of Ichabod Grummon
Wife of David Crane
Child of Elijah Woodruff
Wife of John Conner
Sisters dau. of W m Price
Child of John Looker [or Locker]
Dau. of Samuel Smith
Dau. of W m Stibbs

Richard Timbril [or Timbul]
Child of Joseph Stackbouse

Isaac Sullenger [or Jullenger]

James Ross

Joseph Hinds

A soldier
Negro child of Mr. M c Daniel

Dau. of Widow Thane [in pencil " Jan "]

Child of John Chandler

Child of David Lyon

Widow of Daniel Meeker Sen r

Stephen Wilcox
Moses Woodruff

[In pencil " Mary"] Wife of Nathaniel
Woodruff

1768
June
July

Aug*
Sept.
Dec.

1769
Jan.
Feb.

Mar.

April
June

July
Aug
Aug
Oct

Dec 1

1770

July

Feb r

March
June

6
tt

21
25
27
28
13
14
21

3
18
22
26

14
30

DISEASE.

a
oS

2CG

Sextons' Booh, First Church, Elizabeth, XT. J. [July,

NAMES.

of Isaac Woodruff
Son of Benf Miller
Dun. of Widow Thane
Child of John Chandler

John Dane
Child of David Chandler

One of the Poor
Child of Thomas Quigley
Child of Thomas Yv r iiliams

of John Clawson
Child of Gabriel Meeker
Father of Elias Boudinot
Wife of Daniel Williams

Joseph Little
Child of Nehemiah Crane
Child of D. Chandler
Child of John Jewel Jun

Poor woman
Child of David Whitehead Jun r
Son of Richard Tcwnley

Poor boy
Child of Jonathan Winans
Mother of Charles Tooker
- Child of Abraham Meeker Jun r

Samuel Chandler
Joanna Hardy Child
Child of Isaac Col lard
Child of Daniel Price Jun r
Jonathan Son of Sam 1 Winans
Child of Austin Penny
Father in Lasv of Ephrairn Baker

John Clark
Wife of Nathan Woodruff
Son of John Durham

Ebenezer Soinning
Child of James Carmicle

* Child of John Meeker
Child of Abraham Hatfield
Wife of Josiah Winans
Child of Josiah Winans
Mother of Nathaniel Bond
Child of Nathaniel Bond

James Lyon
Child of Matthew Canfield
Child of John Arnet
Child of George Ross

AGE

DEATH.

DISEASE.

1770
June

July

Aug*
Oct

[in pencil

4 died

July

Aug*

Sept
Oct

Dec r

1771
Jan'y

Feby

Febr

March

Jan'y
April

May

1772
July
Aug

1773
Feby
July

Oct

18
23
14

4
a

13
15
19

5
19
26

6
29

14
23
28
17
28

1
31

14
21
23

2
27
12

4
15

1
6

3
12

1770"]

1890.] Sextons' Booh, First Church, Elizabeth, 2T. J. 267

NAMES.

AGE

DEATH.

DISEASE.

1774

^ Nathaniel Meeker

Jany

Jacob Baker

Feby

Child of Stephen Passel [Farcell]

Wife of Benj n Willis

Mar

Son of Thomas Quigley

July

Doct r Burnet

Child of Robert Stewart

2 Child' 1 of David Ross

Sept

Child of Daniel Sale

Oct r

2 Children of W™ M. Barnet

Nov r

[In pencil " Ivachel "] child of Abraham

Osborn

"Wife of Abner Woodruff

Dec r

Child of David Thompson

May

Timothy Price

Master Williams

Dau. of William Pool

June

Child of Widow Ogden

Wife of Thomas Burrows

July

Child of Isaac Woodruff

Dau. of Michael Higgins

i — i

Child of David Lyon

Aug*

r—p

Child of Stephen Crane

Dau. of Matthias Crano

«3

<*9

Son of Jacob Hetfield

Jacob Hetfield

Widow of Jacob Hetfield

Henry Gal haute

3
i i

Sept r

Child of W m Haviland

5
■ i

Child of John Sayre

Child of Samuel Morehouse

Oct r

Nov*

Child of George Droe

Dau. of Benj n Pierson

Dec r

Benf Hinds

Widow Bond

1775

Child of Andrew Miller

Jany

Child of Jacob Winans

O /"H__ y-.Tj 1 1-

Feb'

Elizabeth Whitead

Child of Jacob Crane

Child of Daniel Spinning

Samuel Ogden

Mrs. Ayres

Jan T

Widow Masters

Feb.

Mother of John Chandler

April

Samuel son of Benj a Crane

May

■

Sextons

Booh, First Church, Elizabeth, JST. J. [July,

Child of M r Gates

Dau. of Barnes Stackhouse

Ephraim Baker
Widow Baltinghouse
Child of George Everson
Child of John Moony
_ - of David Lyon

Moses Price
Child of Nehemiah Crane
Child of W ra Meeker/
Child of Peter Vauderbilt

John Aniet

Widow Williams
Wife of Isaac Winans
Child of David Crane
Child of Daniel Sayre
Child of John Blanchard
Child of Jonathan Morehouse
Child of John Scott
Child of W m Higgins (B. smith)

Charity Meeker ' .
Wife of David Woodruff Sen r

Jonathan Magie
John Spinning
Child of Caleb Crane
Wife of Stephen Orsborn

Daniel Bedell
Child of William Clark
Child of M r Pollock
Child of W m Crane
Child of Joseph Barnett
Wife of Joshua Conklin
Dau. of Moses Price

Thomas Williams

A Rifleman
Child of David Ross 4th
Wife of Isaac Badgley

Job Smith
Child of John Ogden Jun r
.Sou of John Blanchard

** Abraham Meeker Jun r '
Child of Kzekiel Baker
boil of William Simmons

Child of Soldier
Soldier
[In pencil "Jane"] Wife of Benj n Winans
Child of Cornelius Miller
Child of William Clark

June

July
Aug*

Sep'
Oct.

Nov r
177C
Jany

Mar

April
May

28
29

8
20
22
16
18

7
22
28

13
tt

9
21

29-

12
tt

18
4
5
10
20
24

July

t»

Aug 1

8
19

Sept

2
5

-4-3
O

1890.] Sextons' Book, First Church, Elizabeth, JST. J.

269

NAME.

AGE

DEATH.

DISEASE.

1776

Son of Moses Miller

Sept

Widow Hatfield

Child of Sam 1 Chandler

Child of Joanna Hardy

[In pencil "Elizabeth''] Wife of Timothy

Woodruff

A Soldier ^,v

David Smith

■^

Child of James Crane Jim*

Child of John Potter Jun r

Child of David Thompson

Wife of Stephen Crane Sen r

Child of Thomas Poluk [Pollock]

Wife of Ebenezer Spinning

Oct

Wife of Thomas Williams

Wife of Swan

Daniel Price

r— i

Major Wade

•73
03

Child of Samuel Woodruff

Child of Benf Willis

* lieyney

1=1

Son of David Peirson

Woman died at house of Jas. Haines

Child of W m Crissey

Nov

Soldier died at Hospital

Child of John Clawson

Nathaniel Price

Child of Jonathan Morehouse

Soldier

Mary Ayres

Wife of Soldier

Wife of Moses Austin

Jacob Taylor

Dec*

Phebe Kemsden

1777

Benjamin Clark

Jany

Child of Alexander Dickey

Nathaniel Woodruff

Widow of Joseph Halsey

Elijah son of David Woodruff

Wife of Samuel Price

Child of Elias Wiuans (Tailor)

Feby

Wife of Jonathan Williams

John Oi^den Jun r

Child of Thomas Woodruff

Hobel a Soldier

Child of Livington

VOL. XLIV.

[To be continued.]

270 Soldiers in King Philip's War. [July,

SOLDIE11S IN KING PHILIP'S WAP.

Communicated by the Rev. George M. Bodge, A.M., of East Boston, Mass.
[Continued from page 147.]

No. XXX.

Christian Indians of Mr. Eliot and Gen. Gookin.

IN this history reference has constantly been made to the Christian
or Friendly Indians, and in some cases comments have been
made as to their relation to the war, their personal services, etc. It
seems fitting that some more general and definite reference should be
made to their services and their relation to the Colony, as well as
to their place in public opinion.

In order to a clear understanding, it may be well to refer briefly
to the origin of the movement which resulted in "christianizing" a
part of the Indians in the New England Colonies. The experiment
was inaugurated by the zealous eiforts of Ilev. John Eliot, who
came to New England in the ship "Lyon, William Peirce Master,"
which arrived in Boston, November 3, 1631. He was born in
Nasing, Essex, England, in 1604, "of godly parents." He was a
fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1(322.

Upon his arrival in Boston, Mr. Eliot was engaged to officiate in
the church in the absence of Mr. Wilson, the pastor, then in Eng-
land ; and next year, his friends, to whom he was partly engaged
before leaving England, having arrived and settled at lloxburv, he
was called to their new church, and there ordained as their teacher
in 1632. His affianced wife arrived in the summer of that year,
and they were married in October. Mr. Eliot soon evinced deep
interest in the welfare of the Indians, and studied their language
and habits, and especially their habits of thought in the direction of
religion. He went much amongst them, and, in order to a closer
study of their language, hired one of good intelligence and spirit to
live at his house and assist in his studies. This Indian was Job
Nesutan, and he was Mr. Eliot's chief assistant, but was killed at
the beginning of Philip's War, while serving with the English
against Philip, though he was then eighty-six years old. Mr. Eliot
was eminent for his learning, especially in Hebrew, but was more
eminent for his deep piety and self-consecration to his chosen work.
He was particularly impressed with the great opportunity presented
by the Indian tribes for the spread of the gospel of Christ. He
marked with great concern the general indifference of the English
to this opportunity for Christian work, but doubled his own
endeavors to achieve the great purpose. There is no more glorious
achievement in our annals, both for its heroic spirit and its vast

1890.]

Soldiers in King Philip's War.

271

labor, than his mastering of the Indian language and his translation
of the Bible into the Indian tongue. In the meantime the Indians
in the neighborhood of the settlements had lived mostly at peace
with the English, who had bought their lands, peltry, and labor,
and paid in "truck," cheap clothes, fire-arms, "fire-water," etc., for
the most part carrying on with them a system of deception and
extortion which we in our reverence for the Puritans and Pilgrims
can hardly realize as possible. But we remember the confidence of
their religious purpose and their strong faith that God meant this
country for them, and to "give the lands of the heathen for their
inheritance ; " and they looked upon the Indians, as the Jews upon
the Gentiles of old, as necessary impediments to their onward course,
to be used for their own advantage, when possible, or to be pushed
aside at will. But all did not hold this opinion ; and there were
many among the leaders in all the colonies who from the first re-
garded the rights of the Indians, and sought to help them ; and
many believed that they should be treated with justice under the
laws, their rights maintained, and their spiritual welfare secured by
the efforts of the Courts and the Churches.

Many letters had been written by the settlers to their friends in
England, about the Indians and their habits, and also of the remark-
able success of the French Jesuits in converting them to their re-
ligion ; all which had the elFect of stirring up a strong sentiment in
England towards the evangelization of the Indians in New England
by the settlers. But greatest of all influences tending to this
purpose were the letters and tracts of Mr. Eliot. Several of the
tracts are still preserved, and No. 1 was reprinted in 1S<o5 for
Joseph Sabin, New York. This "Tract I." was first printed in
1643, with the following title :

" New England's First Fruits in respect —

First of the

( Conversion of Some
4 Conviction of divers
( Preparation of Sundry

of the Indians.'

bridge,

Colledge at Cam-

The remainder of the title referred to the

etc.
Later three other tracts appeared, viz. :

Tract IT.* The Day breaking if not the Sun rising of the Gospel with
the Indians in New England. London, 1647.

Tract III. The clear sunshine of the Gospel breaking forth upon the
Indians of New England. Thomas Shepard, London, 1G48.

Tract IV. The glorious progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians
of New England. Edward Winslow, London, 1649.

There were eleven tracts in all, the last issued in 1671.
In 1046 the General Court of Massachusetts passed an Act for
the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians, and recom-

* Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. xxiv. 1-23.

Soldiers in King Philip's War, [July,

mcndin" ciders of the churches to take measures for carrying this

into e fleet. t j

In England, great interest was shown in the work, and Mr. Eliot
received pecuniary assistance for establishing schools among the
natives. Oliver Cromwell and other high dignitaries were greatly
interested, and July 27, 1649, an Ordinance was passed by the
"Lorn* Parliament," forming "A Corporation for the Promoting
and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England."
Nearly £12,000 in money was collected and invested by this cor-
poration for the purposes set forth ; and Commissioners and a
Treasurer were appointed in New England to receive and expend
the income, chiefly in Massachusetts, near Boston, but a portion in
somewhat distant parts and in New York. Upon the Restoration
of Charles II. in 16(30, this corporation was annulled, but by the
extreme exertions of Hon. Robert Boyle, the company was re-estab-
lished with a royal charter, and kept up its work. The work was
chiefly done by itinerant teachers, preachers and missionaries, and
was kept up in various stations until the Revolution, after which, by
the charter, it had to be transferred to the Provinces.* *

On October 28th, 16-16, Mr. Eliot, by appointment, met a small
congregation of Indians at Nonantuin, now within the city of New-
ton, and preached to them in their own tongue. The meeting was
held in the wigwam of one named Waban, who was converted after-
wards and became ruler of the " Praying Village " at Natick. Mr.
Eliot labored thereafter unceasingly in behalf of the Indians, and
chiefly through his wisdom, fidelity and devotion, the Christian
Indian communities attained the size and efficiency with which they
were found at the beginning of Philip's war, their relations to which
we started mainly to consider.

From Major General Gookin's "History of the Christian Indians"
we learn nearly all that is known of their numbers, progress, condi-
tions, sufferings and services during Philip's war. In the beginning
he says :

The Christian Indians in New England have their dweHinga in sundry
jurisdictions of the English Colonies, and that at a considerable distance from
each other; more particularly,

1st. Upon the Islands of Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard, in which
two islands there inhabit many hundreds of them that visibly profess the
Gospel. These Indians have felt very little of this war comparatively ; for
the English that dwell upon those Islands have held a good correspondence
with these Indians all the time of the war, as they did before the war
began, etc.

* Interesting details concerning this society will be found in the Register, vol. 36, pages
157-161, 371-6 ; and vol. 3D, pages '209-300. The society, which is still in existence, is now
called the "New England Society." Two societies incorporated since, and both still in
existence, have similar names, and are likely to be confounded with it, namely, " The So-
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," incorporated in 1701 ; and "The
Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America," in-
corporated in 1787. See Register, vol. 39, pp. 182-3, and vol. 42, pp. 329-30.

1890.]

Soldiers in King Philip's War

273

Gen. Gookin says these "Island Indians" were accustomed to
come up into the colonies to work in the summer for the settlers,
and thus to supply themselves with clothing- and other things which
were very scarce upon the islands. When the war broke out these
were all sent back to their homes with great loss, " because the
English were so jealous, and filled with animosity against all
Indians without exception." These, therefore, had no part in the
war.

2nd. "Another considerable number of Christian Indians live within the
jurisdiction of New Plymouth, called the Cape Indians."

He speaks of the assistance which these rendered the English in
the war, but says that the English in the Plymouth colony were slow
to employ them, being suspicious of them, as they were related to
the Wampanoags, but there was no evidence of bad faith on their
part in any instance. These, like the Island Indians, were outside
active participation, except those who served with the English.

Pie mentions 3d!y the small number of those belonging to the
Mohegans, and living at New Warwick, Connecticut, who had been
taught by Rev. James Fitch, pastor of the church at Norwich.
There were about forty of these Indians who had become Christians
in profession, through the efforts of Mr. Fitch ; while Uncas their
chief, and his son Oneko, were bitterly opposed to the teaching and
preaching among the Mohegins. But all were on friendly terms
with the colonies, and served very gladly whenever the service
would lead them against the Narragansets, their ancient implacable
enemies. In their character as " Christian " Indians, they did not,
therefore, attain much prominence.

The chief body of the Christian Indians were 4thly, those within
the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Colony, "who were taught and
instructed in the Christian faith by that indefatigable servant of God
and minister of Christ, Mr. John Eliot;" who, Gen. Gookin
declares (K37G-7), has labored among all the praying Indians in
New England more or less for thirty years. Of the Massachusetts
Christian Indians he speaks in full, these having been under his special
superintendence, and having been more concerned in the war than any
or all the rest.

There were seven villages of these Christian Indians, all to the
south of the Merrimac River, viz. :

Wamesit, included in old Chelmsford, but now the city of Lowell.

Nashobah, within the present town of Littleton.

Okkokonimesit, or Marlborough.

Hassannaniesit, or Grafton.

Makunkokoag, now Hopkinton.

Natick, which has preserved its name to the present.

Punkapog or Pakomit, which is now partly in Canton, Mass.

These were the " Old Praying " villages, so-called, in distinction
vol. xliv. 23*

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Soldiers in King Philip's War.

[July,

from some half dozen villages among the Nipmucks called the "Xew
Proving Towns," which latter however were just beginning, and soon
fell off, from the English when their tribes joined in the war.

A few of these only came to Marlborough and joined the Christian
Indians there, and remained until forced away by their tribes in
hostility. These "Praying towns" were so located that they might
have formed a line of defence for the greater part of the Massachu-
setts towns upon the frontier ; and it was proposed and urged by
those who knew most about these Christian Indians, that the forts,
which in most cases they had built for themselves under the direction
of the English, should now be garrisoned by them, with English
officers and about one third of the garrison English soldiers ; and
that these should be improved in scouting and guarding the frontiers.
There is little doubt that this course would have saved most of the
destruction and bloodshed which took place in Massachusetts during
the war ; but there was a furious popular prejudice against all In-
dians, and the majority of the population had no confidence in any
attempt to employ Indians in military movements.

The Mohegans and Pequods, under Uncas, were in alliance with
the English, and were bound to them by their hostility to the Nar-
ragansets, and though not Christian Indians, serve to illustrate the
wisdom of the plan proposed in Massachusetts by Gen. Gookin.
For the hostile Indians never dared to invade the Connecticut Colo-
ny to any notable extent, and burned only one small (and already
deserted) village, during the whole war.

In the beginning of the war, in the campaign at Mount Hope, w r e
have seen that the Mohegans with a few of the Christian Indians
from Natick did all the execution which was wrought upon Philip
in his retreat.

But to begin properly. John Sassamon, whom Gen. Gookin
calls the first martyr of the Christian Indians, w r as a Wampanoag,
but, Increase Mather says, was born in Dorchester, and his parents
both lived there and died as Christian Indians. He had come under
the influence and instruction of Mr. Eliot, who knew him from a
child, and lie was evidently one of the brightest and ablest of the
Christian Indians. He could read and write well, and had trans-
lated portions of the Bible into the Indian language. He had been
employed as a teacher of the Christian Indians at the Natick village.
But tins method of life seems to have been somewhat monotonous to
his uneasy spirit, and upon some dissatisfaction he went away, first to
Alexander, and afterwards joined Philip at Mount Hope, where,
in 1662, he is found as Philip's secretary and interpreter. But he
did not remain there long, as we find him back among the Naticks,
probably through the influence of Mr. Eliot ; he there made a public
profession of religion, was baptized and became one of the most
gifted of the ministers of the Christian Indians. It would seem that
openly there was no great breach with his countrymen on account of

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275

his returning to the English, because we afterwards find him.

mingling freely amongst Philip's people. In 1673 he is at

Namasket, now Middleborough, as preacher to the people, whose

chief was "Old Watuspaquin " or "Tuspaquin," whose daughter

Assowetough (or as as the English called her, " Betty "), Sassamon

had married. It would seem that the old chief encouraged the

teaching of the Gospel, as he gave by deed a tract of land to

Sassamon, upon which to settle. Sassamon, in going about and

mingling with Philip's people, found that a plan was formed for the

extermination of the English settlers, and that many tribes were

being solicited to join in it by Philip's agents. This discovery

Sassamon revealed to the Governor of Plymouth, at the same time

assuring him that if Philip should know of his revealing it, he would

immediately order him to be killed by any of his people who should

meet him. Tardy notice was taken of this information by the

authorities at Plymouth, although afterwards it was communicated

to the authorities of Massachusetts, where much concurrent evidence

had been received from various sources. But finally it was deemed

advisable to take action, and the Governor of Plymouth sent

and had Philip and several of his councillors examined. This

examination, while it did not prove the charge against Philip,

left a strong impression of his guilt and showed him that Sassamon

had betrayed their plot to the English, and he was immediately

condemned to death as a traitor. The sentence was carried out by

the method of a cowardly assassination, while the victim was fishing

through the ice, upon Assawomset Pond. A few of Philip's men

came upon him there, and after a little apparent friendly conversation,

attacked and overcame him, and after knocking him on the head

they put his body into the hole and under the ice, leaving his gun

and hat upon the ice as though he had fallen in accidentally. His

body was recovered by his people, and although they found his neck

broken and bruises about his head, the body was buried and no stir

was made about the affair. But an Indian called David, a friend

of Sassamon, imparted his suspicions to some of the English at

Taunton ; and they to Gov. Winslow, who, recalling what Sassamon

had said, caused an investigation, upon which it was found, when the

body had been exhumed, that he had been indeed murdered ; and

afterwards an Indian named Patuckson appeared, who had from a

neighboring hill witnessed the murder but had not dared to

declare it. This witness also identified the murderer as Tobias, one

of the councillors of Philip, who was tried at Plymouth, March,

1674-5, and that session bound over to the next and was bailed out

by Tuspaquin, who gave bonds for a hundred pounds by a mortgage

on his lands at Namasket. He was brought up again at the June

session, and with him now were two more accused of the crime as

accomplices; these were Tobias's son, Wampapaquan, and Mat-

tashunannamoo. At this trial four Indians were added as advisers

27G

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[July,

;

to the twelve English jurymen, and concurred in the verdict of
murder against the three prisoners. The indictment declares that
the crime was committed upon January 29, 1674-5. Two of the
prisoners were executed June 8, 1G75, at Plymouth. The son of
Tobias, for some reason, was reprieved for one month, but having
made full confession that the two already executed had done the
deed, himself looking on, was shot within the month. It was this
conviction and execution of the murderers of Sassamon undoubtedly
which precipitated the war at least a year before Philip had planned its
beginning. In the meantime several of the Christian Indians had
expressed their belief that a plan was on foot for the general destruc-
tion of the English in the colonies ; and among these was Waban,
a Nipmuck, at whose tent, amongst that people, Mr. Eliot had first
preached to them in their own tongue. Waban himself having been
the first of his tribe to be converted, became afterwards the principal
ruler of the Christian Indians at Natick. In April, 1675, Waban
came to Gen. Gookin and warned him of Philip's intention shortly
to attack the English ; and again in May he came and urged the
same, and said that "just as soon as the trees were leaved out " the
Indians would fall upon the towns. Very little attention was paid to
these reports by the Governor and Council at Boston, and within a
month the despatch came from Plymouth that the war had begun,
account of which has been given.

When the forces marched out to Mount Hope first, June 24th,
1675, Capt. Prentice took with him as guides three Christian
Indians, viz. : James Quanapohit ; Thomas Quanapohit, alias
"Kumneymarsh," his brother; and Zachary Abram, all of whom,
in that campaign, acquitted themselves bravely and well, despite the
bitter hostility of many of the officers and soldiers, and their threats
and open insults. If our soldiers had not been blinded by the
popular clamor against all Indians, they would have seen in their
experience with these scouts, and in the success of Uncas and his
Indians a few days later, the utter uselessness of the noisy and
clumsy infantry tactics of the English, in Indian warfare, whenever
it was a march of invasion or pursuit. The enemv were always
apprised of the coming of the troops for miles ahead. The Con-
necticut officers and soldiers were readier to learn of their Indian
allies, and were thus saved from many disasters and secured many
substantial victories. It is related that in one of their marches into
the enemies' country, one of the English soldiers wore squeaking
shoes, and the Indian leader insisted upon his changing them for his
own moccasins, while he carried the shoes slung at his back, and
himself went barefoot. Another of the soldiers wore a pair of
leather breeches, which being dry made a rustling noise, which the
Indian objected to and refused to proceed until the breeches were
either removed or soaked in water to prevent the rustling. The
chief element of success in Indian warfare was the secrecy and silence

1890.]

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211

of their movements. We can appreciate therefore the immense
advantage the early and general use of the friendly Indians would
have brought to the forces of the colony. It is probable that nearly
all the fearful disasters which came to our troops and the many de-
feats and disappointments which came to their plans, might have
been prevented but for the stupid prejudice and distrust, which shut
out and contemptuously ignored t\\G willing services of the Christian
Indians. The Governor and Council and most of the men in
authority, and many of the chief officers like Gen. Denison, Major
Willard, Major Savage, Capts. Prentice and Henchman, favored
the use of friendly Indians ; indeed the Governor, July 2, 1G75,
gave orders to Gen. Gookin to raise a company of the Christian
Indians, for service at Mount Hope. In pursuance of this, one
third of the ablehodied men in all the villages were mustered and
amounted to a company of fifty-two. This company was conducted
to Mount Hope by Capt. Johnson and a small escort, and there de-
livered to the commander of the forces. All served twenty-five
days, when one half their number were dismissed, the rest remaining
until the close of the campaign, as seen under the chapter devoted
to Capt. Henchman's operations. All acquitted themselves satisfac-
torily to their officers. Some of them proved their sincerity in the
barbarous way of that day : for it is told that John Hunter, Thomas
Quanapohit, and Felix, brought home to Gov. Leverett four of the
scalps of enemies slain by their hands in this campaign ; and Job
Nesutan, the principal assistant of Mr. Eliot in his translation of the
Bible, was killed. There can be little doubt that if in the pursuit
of Philip into the Nipmuck country, the counsel of the Natick In-
dians had been heeded by Capt. Henchman, Philip and most of his
company would have been destroyed, the Mohegans having on the
previous day sorely pressed them and driven them into swamps.

In the negotiations attempted by Capt. Hutchinson with Quabaug
Indians, three of the Christian Indians were sent as guides and inter-
preters, viz. : George Memecho, and the brothers Joseph and
Sampson, sons of old Robin Petuhanit deceased. These all strongly
advised against the advance, and warned the English, but were
in the fight with Capt. Wheeler's men. George was captured
and afterwards escaped, bringing back an intelligent account of the
situation of the hostile tribes ; and it is probable that the entire
force under Capt. Wheeler would have been destroyed but for the
fidelity and skill of Joseph and Sampson in conducting the retreat
and avoiding the ambush set by the enemy. But although this was
known and vouched for by the officers, the popular feeling was so
bitter that these two were threatened and insulted by the soldiers, so
that in utter discouragement they fell away to the enemy at Ilas-
sanamesit, and Sampson was slain in fight by some friendly Indian
scouts at Watchuset ; while Joseph having been captured was sold
into slavery at Jamaica, by some Boston merchants, but afterwards

Soldiers in King Philip's War. [July,

1>V Mr. Eliot's importunity brought back again, though never re-
leased.

Finally, Aug. 30, 16*75, the Governor and Council yielding to

popular prejudice, against their own better judgment, decreed the dis-

bandment of all Christian Indian companies in service ; and-that they •;•

be restrained from all usual commerce with the English and confined

to their five villages ; and no one of them to travel more than one

mile from the centre of such village except in the company of English

or on service. The five villages designated were Natick, Punquapog,

Nashobah, Wamesit, and ILissanamesit. All Christian Indians

were to repair to these villages. If any shall be found breaking

these rules, the English are at liberty to shoot them down as enemies

or' arrest them. It was recommended by the Court that several of

the English should reside in each village, and this was earnestly

desired by the Indians themselves, for their own protection ; but few

could be found who were willing to withstand popular prejudice, as

all who expressed sympathy or confidence towards these Indians

were at once denounced as fools or traitors. Maj. Gen. Gookin,

and even the saintly Eliot were loaded with reproaches and threats,

and insulted in the streets because of their advocacy of the rights of „

the Christian Indians. John Watson, senior, and Henry Prentiss,

of Cambridge, were with the Naticks for twelve weeks and gave

certificate of their orderly, discreet and religious conduct. Although

Watson had gone among them bitterly opposed to them, and

sharing the common opinion against them, he was entirely

converted by his experience, and declared it, though incurring

much popular indignation by that course. Chief among the officers

who led the hostile fury was Capt. Mosely in Boston, whose acts

of persecution are set down in the chapters heretofore devoted to

him, among which the breaking up of the village at Marlborough,

and the imprisonment of the helpless and harmless Indians, was

perhaps the most open outrage sustained by any ; and it is to the

credit of the magistrates that they did not yield to the tremendous

pressure of the people's rage, which by every device possible kept

these poor creatures on trial for their lives and imprisoned through

many weeks. Early in October the fever rose to its height, and

the Court was importuned with many petitions to remove all the

Christian Indians to one place and put them under military guard.

In spite of all proof and testimony, and all the favor of the Court,

and the best conscience of the community, together with the advocacy

of Gen. Gookin, Mr. Eliot, Corporal Thomas Swift, inspector at

Punquapog, John Watson abovementioned, Mr. John Hoar of

Concord, and others, — the popular frenzy prevailed, and there is no

doubt that in several cases fires were set and damage was done by

inhabitants living near the "Praying Villages," who hated these

Indians and desired their removal ; or often by hostile Indians who

were skulking about in the neighborhood, and knew they had more

1890.] Inscriptions from Old Danvers Burial Grounds. 279

to fear from the scouts of these Christian Indians than from all the
troops of the English. October 18th, a party of the hostile Indians
6et fire to a haystack of Lieut. Richardson at Chelmsford, and
managed so that the deed should appear to be done by the AVamesit
Praying Indians, that so the English should remove them from their
village, or so persecute them as to drive them to the enemy. This
crime was afterward confessed by Nathaniel, a hostile Indian, who
was taken at Dover by the strategy of Maj. Waldron, and executed
at Boston. Although Lieut. Kichardson declared that the " Praying
Indians" were his warm friends, and would never injure him their
best friend in those parts, all availed nothing, the vulgar clamor
prevailed, and the Court next day passed an order for the troopers
to bring down the Wamesits, and also the Punkapogs, upon some
like occasion of complaint.

INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE BURIAL GROUNDS IN THE OLD
TOWN OF DANVERS.

Copied by the late Samuel P. Fowler, of Danvers, Mass.

[Concluded from page 148.]

Latin inscription over the grave of Rev. Joseph Green, translated :

Under this sod,

Lie in hope of a happy resurrection,

The remains of the Reverend deceased Joseph Green A.M. of this church
for nearly the period of eighteen years, A most vigilant Pastor, — A
man to he held in perpetual remembrance, Both for seriousness of dis-
course and agreeableuess of manners. Who departed from a laborious
life in this place on the 6 th day of the calends of December in the year
of the Lord 1715. He had just completed his fortieth year.

[In the "Wadsworth grave yard, the oldest one in Danvers, we find the
sunken grave of Mrs. Elizabeth Parris, who was the wife of Rev. Samuel
Parris, and who died the 14th day of July, 1696. The monument
erected to her memory is a gray slate stone, well preserved, on which is
the following inscription, with the initials of Samuel Parris at the lower
corner.}

Sleep precious Dust, no stranger now to Rest,

Thou hast thy longed wish, -within Abraham's Breast.

Farewell Best Wife, Choice Mother, Neighbour, Friend,

We'll wail the less, for hopes of thee in the end. 8. p.

[Here I am disposed to pay a passing tribute to the memory of this
esteemed woman, whose ancestry I have been unable to discover. What-
ever may be thought of the conduct of Mr. Parris in the witchcraft
delusion, the course taken by his wife was admirable; above censure,
suspicion or reproach. Nothing but the promptings of a loving Christian
heart could have kept her aloof from participating in these strange trans-
actions iu her household, the sad delusion that followed them, and the

230 Inscriptions from Old Danvers Burial Grounds. [July,

troubles that took place in the Parish for several years after the bloody
tragedy came to an end. How she could avoid being drawn into the ex-
ciu-nieut which was so constant with her husband, in her family, church
and neighborhood, is diilicult to conceive. .But she did; and her name
is nowhere to be found in connection with any of the delusive acts which
occurred iu Salem Village, or the trouble which followed them in the
Parish.]

In memory of Rev. Samuel Walker who was graduated at Dartmouth
College A.D. 1802, and ordained over the second church in Danvers
Aug. 14 th 1805 — An ardent defender and zealous preacher of the faith
once delivered to the saints — A laborious and faithful Pastor — He ad-
vanced his profession by his life, was sustained in his last sufferings by
the faith lie had preached, and peacefully fell asleep in the bosom of his
friends and church, July 7 th 1826 in the 48 th year of his age. As a token
of respect for his departed worth, this monument is erected by his Bereaved
flock.

In memory of Rev. Nathaniel Holt A.M. pastor of the 2d church in Danvers,
who rested from his labours Aug. 2 d 17 ( J2 in the G8 th year of his age and
34 year of his ministry. Piety, benevolence, integrity and prudence were
prominent features in his character as a man and as a minister. He lived
beloved and died lamented.

" Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that
man is peace."

In memory of Mr. Joseph Porter who died January 8 th 1830 aged 70. He
was highly esteemed for the capacious powers he possessed, and the
amiable character he bore.

Sacred to the memory of Dea. Joseph Putnam who died March 9 th 1818 in
the 79 year of his age —

If real -worth demands a tear,
Stop reader, pay the tribute here.
The man of God beneath this stone,
Equal'd by few, excelled by none.

Here lyes intered the Body of Mrs. Deborah Clark consort of the Rev.
Peter Clark of this town, Who departed this life Feb. 28 th 17G5 JE Go.
Sleep precious dust, while here confined in earth,
Till the glad Spriug of Nature's second birth,
Then quit the transient Winter of the tomb,
To rise and flourish in immortal bloom.

Consecrated to the memory of Benjamin Wadsworth D.D. a tender faithful
husband and father, a valuable friend and judicious counsellor, an
exemplary christian and distinguished public servant of the friend of
Peace, who eutered into his rest January 1.8* A.D. 1826 in the 7G year
of his age and 54 of his ministry in this place.

Tis great to pause and think in what a brighter world than this, his
spirit shines.

Inscribed to the memory of distinguished female excellence exemplified in
the life of Mrs. Mary Wadsworth the amiable consort of the Rev. Benja-
min Wadsworth of this town. Her heart was a temple of piety, and
rarely shines so rich a constellation of natural endowments, hue accom-
plishments, and christian virtues as dignified, embellished, and endeared
her character. Highly esteemed she lived, and greatly lamented dropped

1890.]

Descendants of Nicholas Browne.

281

mortality in full hope of Heaven March 16 1798 in the 47 th year of
her age.

Sleep sacred dust till the last trump shall sound,

And wake to life all nations under ground.

Then burst the bands of death, and mount on high,

Enrobed in blissful immortality

To join thy kindred soul in realms of joy.

In memory of Phebe Lewis who died Jan. 10 th 1823 aged 40 years. — She
shone a bright example of integrity and fidelity and an ornament to the
Christian profession.
[Note. Phebe Lewis was for many year3 a faithful colored servant in

the family of the Rev. Dr. Wadsworth.]

NICHOLAS BROWNE OF BEADING AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.

* . By Mrs. Haeriet H. Robinson, of Maiden, Mass.

NICHOLAS 3 BROWNE was the son of Edward 1 Browne and Jane
Lide, daughter of Thomas Lide, " who lived and died in the Parish
of Inkburrow, Worcestershire, England." He settled in Lynn before 1638,
where his son John's name appears in the Indian deed of Lynn as "ye wor-
shipful Mr. John Browne." He sent his son John to England in- )6GQ to
look after his father-in law's property, which he had inherited as " next
heir to the Lides," and gave him power of attorney to call one William
Rand to account, " what of shops, houses, lands and monies he hath received
for rents, profits and sheep-rent, heretofore and of late due, arising, growing
and properly belonging unto the heirs of the said Lide." — (History of
Reading.)

Nicholas Browne was one of the early " planters " of Lynn, and lived at
the north west of Saddlers' rock (in what is now Saugus). He had 210 acres
of laud given him by the town. " bounded on the east side of it with the great
river, on the south side with the land of Boniface Buxton, on the west side
with the land of Lieut. Thomas Marshall and Jeremiah Swain, and on the
north of it with the meadows commonly called the wigwams." — (Town
Records of Reading.) He was made freeman in 1G38, and was deputy to
the General Court in 1641. — (Massachusetts Records.) Lynn and Reading
then "joined each other even from the sea," and the latter was called Lynn
Village, but in 1644 the name was changed to Reading, and Mr. Browne
moved there and had 200 acres of land granted to him. He located, first on
the " east side of the great pond," and his house stood where Mr. Lucius
Beebe's now stands. — ( History of Wakefield.) He owned other tracts of land
in Reading and Lynn, including 327 acres "on the north side of Ipswich
River," which was given to him by the town of Reading. In 1G50 he was
chosen commissioner " to try small causes." He was deputy to the General
Court in 1655, '56 and '61, and was also one of the selectmen during these
years. At that date Reading contained about thirty square miles.

Nicholas Browne married (in England, probably) Elizabeth , and

they both joined the First Church in Reading, February 6, 1 663. He died in
VOL. xnv. 24

282

Descendants of Nicholas Browne.

[July,

1673. His will is at East Cambridge. His estate was valued at £l232.9s.

Their children were :

i. John, b. 1634; m. 1st, Ann Fisk; 2d, Elizabeth Bulklcy, widow of
the Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon, and ancestress of Ralph
Waldo Emerson. John Browne's daughter, Anne, married Peter
Emerson, son of the Rev. J. and Elizabeth Bulkley Emerson, and
succeeded to his father-in-law's estates in Reading. He m. 3d,
Rebecca Sprnirue.

ii. Edward, b. 1010; m. Sarah Dix; d. 1C85.

iii. Joseph, b. 1G47; m. Elizabeth Bancroft. Parents of Captain
Benjamin Browne of Revolutionary fame.

iv. Sarah, b. 1650.
2. v. Cornelius, 3 m. 1665, Sarah Lamson of Ipswich. She d. 1G83. He
d. 1701.

vi. Josiah, m. Mary Fellow T s ; d. 1691.

vii. Elizabeth, m. II. Parker.

2. Cornelius 3 Browne (Nicholas? Edward 1 ) was one of the fifty-nine
householders in Reading in 1GC9, and July 18, 1G90, sold his farm
to his son Samuel, " out of fatherly love and good affection," and in
consideration that the said Samuel pay his father the "just sum of
£3 a year during his natural life," and " reserving room for me in
my now dwelling-house while I am a widower." This is a new
feature in old wills, since it was usually the woman who was left a
place in the old house while she remained a widow.

In the division of the " Great Swamp" in Heading in 1666, he
received by lot, land valued at 12s. 8d. In 1G8G he paid his assess-
ment to the Indians for the purchase of land comprising the town of
Reading; subscribed towards the new meeting-house in 1G88, and
was " owned by the Church," December 13, 1G70. lie died insolvent
in 1701, and in the division of the estate his youngest child, William
(my great-grandfather), was given some part of his father's ''com-
mon rights in Reading," also " half of his father's pine swamp in
Reading" and "his father's meadow" in the same town. The
children of Cornelius and Sarah Lamson Browne:

i. * Nicholas, b. and d. 1G60.

ii. Cornelius, b. 1G67 ; m. Sarah Southwick, 1684.

iii. SARAn, b. 1668.

iv. John, b. 1671 ; d. 1714.

v. Hannah, b. and d. 1G73.

vi. Abigail, b. and d. 1G74.

vii. Samuel, b. 1G75.

viii. Susannah, b. 1G77.

ix. Mary, b. 1679.

x. Hannah, b. 1G80; m. Abraham Wood of Concord.

3. xi. William, 4 b. Feb. 14, 1682; d. in Natick, May 2, 1768.

3. William 4 Browne (Cornelius, 3 Nicholas, 2 Edward}) and Deborah,
widow of Thomas Squire, " both of Cambridge," were married by
the Rev. Thomas Brattle, November 11, 170o (Cambridge Church
Records), and the deed of the first real estate bought by him "for
a valuable sum of money" bears date of March 27, i704 (Deed
at East Cambridge). This land was in Watertown, and very soon
after he sold a part of it to Harvard College. The deed bears date
of September 20, 1705, and states that William Browne of Cam-
bridge, carpenter, sold to Thomas Brattle, Esq., of Boston, treasurer
of the society known as "the President and Eellows of Harvard

1890.]

Descendants of Nicholas Browne.

283

College in Cambridge," a certain parcel of land containing GO acres
upland and swamp in the westerly end of Watertown in the county
of Middlesex, bounded **on the north side by the country road" and
"southerly by Benjamin Allen's." He was a large owner of real
estate in Cambridge and in Reading, all of which he seems to have
sold before his removal to ISatick. The last deed of sale bears date
of April G, 17G7, and states, that William Browne of Cambridge,
gent., sold to Ebenr Smith one and one fourth acres of land in Cam-
bridge, " together with the dwelling house and barn and out-houses
thereon, also my pew in the meeting-house on the south side of
Charles river, with my right in burying place, to have and to hold."
In the History of Reading his name is enrolled with the list on
file at East Cambridge of men who went with the expedition
"against the French and Indians at Nova Scotia and Canada."* He
was a carpenter and builder, and in the inventory of his estate a
long list of carpenters' tools is given. His will mentions all of his
fifteen children by name, and from the long interval between the
dates of their births, one might suppose, as Mr. Paige says in his His-
tory of Cambridge, that they composed "two families, but the father
* * * in his will describes the second class as his five younger
eons and three younger daughters." He was admitted to "full
communion" in the First Church in Little Cambridge (now
Brighton), April 13, 1714.

The children of William Browne and wife Deborah:

i. William, b. Nov. 21, 1704.

ii. Josiaii, b. Oct. 22, 170G; m. 1737, Mary Sever of Brookline ; d. 1761.
They had seven children. The daughters married Learned, Bowles,
Dana and Hovey. The last was mother of seventeen children.

iii. Jonathan, b. July 8, 1708; m. Hannah Gore of Roxbury ; d. 1751.

iv. Deborah, b. Oct. G, 1712; m. 1733, James Green..

v. Mary, b. Jan, 10, 1715— 1G ; m. John Bowles of Roxbury. [line.

vi. John, b. Jan. 19, 1717-18; m. Dec. 7, 1739, Esther Hovey of Brook-
William Browne was married to his second wife, Mary Bailey,
October 13, 1744. Their children were:

vii. Thaddeus, bap. Sept. 28, 174G; lived at " Cape Cod."

viii. Susannah, bap. April 21, 1718.

4. ix. Setii Ixgersoll,* bap. July 8, 1750: d. March 9, 1809.

x. Mary.

xi. Jonathan, bap. Sept. 15, 1754; m. Elizabeth Capen.

xii. Abijah, (1. in Cross St., Boston.

xiii. Susannah.

xiv. Lucy.

xv. Joslaii, b. Feb. 26, 17G8.

Mr. Browne's widow married, May 3, 17C9, Peter Bray, mariner,
and sold her half of her husband's estate to Elijah Bacon of Natick,
with two parcels of land belonging thereto, and a part of the
dwelling-house, "dividing by a line through the largest stack of
chimneys, with half the cellar, barn yard, &c," and a little later the
General Court empowered " Mary Bray and the guardians of the
children of William Browne to sell the whole of the estate, including
the above mentioned premises released."

Mary Bray seems to have taken her dower and left William

* My mother, Harriet Browne Hanson, remembered wearing Indian moccasins that
Grandfather brought home from Canada."

284

Descendants of Nicholas Browne.

[July,

Browne's children to take care of themselves, after choosing guar-
dians for the four youngest children (Abijah, Susannah, Lucy and
Josiah); but Seth Ingersoll, and Mary chose for themselves, as the
following will show:*

"Cambridge June the 12 1770
Mr. Samuel Danford Esquer

Sir, if it is agreeable to youre honerwe have chose Mr. Ephraim Jackson
for owre gardean Seth Ingersoll Browne,

Maiiy Browne."

4. Seth Ingersoll 6 Browne ( William* Cornelius? Nicholas? Edward})
was a house carpenter by trade, and in 1773 had a shop at the end
of Warren bridge in Charlestown, under which was stored some of
the ammunition afterwards used at the battle of Bunker Hill. He
was one of the " Mohawks " who helped throw the tea into Boston
Harbor. He was a " minute man " and a non-commissioned officer,
fought and was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was one
of the company of picked men to transport on horseback through
the country from Newport, R. L, to White Plains, N. Y., the money
sent over by Lafayette to Gen. Washington. After the war was
over, his impaired eyesight not permitting him to work at his trade,
Mr. Browne kept the Punch Bowl Tavern in Koxbury and after-
ward the Sun Tavern in Wing's Lane, Boston. He died in Bow
Street, Charlestown, and lies buried jn the Granary burying-ground.f
Three of his daughters lived to be over eighty years of age, and they
kept the memory of these events in their father's life, as he had often
told them. They also remembered and described a " Browne Coat
of Arms," which disappeared during their remembrance.

Seth Ingersoll Browne was married to his first wife, Lucy Brown,
July 7, 1777,| by the Rev. Nathan Appleton. Their children were :

i. William, m. and d. in Charleston, S. C.

ii. Daniel, m. Sarah Piper; d. in Havana, 1809.

iii. Seth, a mariner. Signed a quit-claim of his father's estate, Sept.
13, 1805.

iv. Elizabeth, d. young.

Mr. Browne's second wife was Sarah Godding, born March 19,
1763; married by the Rev. T. Hilliard, 178G; died, 1801, aged
38. She left eleven children, and was buried from " near the
bridge" in Charlestown, in the Phipps Street burying-ground. fehe
had two brothers, William and Henry; the former a Baptist minister
in Jay, Maine (see Maine Baptists — Millett). Her mother was
Sarah Carter-Godding, whose second husband was Benjamin Piper,
married July 17, 1701. Her name is spelled Goddardm Charlestown
Genealogies and Estates. The names of the children of Seth I. and
Sarah Browne were :

v. Lucy, d. young in Cambridge.

vi. Sally, b. in Newton, November, 1789 ; m. 1st, Varney ; 2d, Crisp; d.

in Boston, June 1, 1S3G.
vii. Abijah, d. young in Boston.

* The tradition in the family has always been, that Mrs. Mary Bray went with her hus-
band to England, taking with her all that she could of her first husband's property, silver,
heirlooms, deeds of land, etc.

t See Drake's Tea Leaves. See also the Peter 'Slater monument in Hope Cemetery,
Worcester, Mass., on which sixty-two names of the members of the " Boston Tea Party"
are inscribed.

t In Cambridge Church Records he is called Seth Ingcrson.

1890.]

Descendants of Nicholas Browne,

285

viii. Cynthia, b. in Cambridge, Aug. 30, 1791; m. Ebcn O. Ilawes; d.

Oct. 18, 1872.
ix. Benjamin Piper, b. in Roxbury, February, 1703; m. 1st Lucy

Taylor; 2d, Hannah Martin; 3d, Augusta Ladd; d. in Lowell,

March 5, 1843.
x. Charles, b. in Koxbury, May, 1704 : d. April 28, 1854.
5. xi. Harriet, 6 b. March 19, 1705; m. William Hanson, July 2, 1822; d.

Jan. 22, 1881.
xii. Isaac Cooper, b* Nov. 4, 1707; m 1st, Patience Palmer; 2d, Ann

Cook; (1. 184-.
xiii. Anoeunk Cooper, b. Nov. 20, 1708; m. 1st, Dec. 5, 1822, "Warren

Cudworth. They Mere the parents of the late Rev. Warren IT.

Cudworth and Angeline M. Cudworth of East Boston. She m. 2d,

Jesse Clark, and d. in East P.oston, March 8, 1882.
xiv. William, b. Sept. 180- : m. Eliza Kingsbury ; d. September, 1831.
xv. Jane, b. April 2, 1802; m. Lowell Adams; d. Oct. 22, 1870.

5. Harriet 6 Browne (Seth Z, 6 William? Cornelius? Nicholas? Edward})
was born in the old 1*1111011 Bowl Tavern in Roxbury. She was
married to William Hanson of Milton, N. II., by the Rev. Paul
Dean of Boston, and died in Maiden, Mass. ' He died in Boston,
July 17, 1831.

The children of William and Harriet Browne Hanson :

i. Jonx Wesley, b. May 12, 1823; m. 1st, May 30, 1840, Eliza R. Hol-
brook; 2d, Aug. 1, 1880, Elizabeth Judd. [He is the author of the
• History of Danvers and several theological books ; resides at
Chicago, 111. lie received the degree of D.D. from Buchtel Col-
lege in 1870.]

ii. Harriet Jane, 7 b. Eeb. 8, 1825; m. Nov. 30, 1848, William S,
Robinson (Warrington) . *

iii. Benjamix Piper Browne, b. April 3, 1820; m. 1855, Angelia Gould.

iv. William, d. young. [1830.

v. William, b. 1820; drowned in Merrimack River in Lowell, Nov. 8,

Appendix on the Robinson Family.

In the Genealogy of William S. Robinson ("Warrington"), in the
Register, vol. 39, page 313, it is stated that Dr. Jeremiah Robinson of
Littleton (Mass.) is the first known ancestor of the name; but since writing
the above, certain records have come to my notice which prove him to have
been a grandson of Jonathan Kobinson of Exeter (now N. II.).

1. Jonathan 1 Kobinson of Exeter died Sept. 10, 1075, and the inven-
tory of his estate can be found in the Norfolk Co. Records at Salem (P>. 3,
P. 2). Elizabeth his widow and David his son "were appointed adminis-
trators of y e estate" at the Court held at Hampton Falls, 1G76, the estate
to remain in their hands during tlte lifetime of the "widow and then be
divided among the children according to law."

2. John 2 Robinson (son of Jonathan 1 ) was born in Exeter, Sept. 7,
1671. His will was proved July 7, 1749 (Town Records of Exeter), and
states that he had a wife Mehitable and children as follows:

i. Sarah, m. Palmer.

ii. Lydia, m. Morrison.

iii. John, m. Feb. 1, 1725, Elizabeth Folsom (0 children).

iv. Jonathan.

* For the children of William S. and Harriet H. Robinson, see Register, vol. xxxix.
page 313.

VOL. XLIV. 24*

28G

Positions held by Alumni.

[July,

v. Jeremiah, 8 m. 1st, Lydia ; 2d, Oct. 14, 1746, Eunico Amsclen- d

Oct. 19, 1771.
vl. Daniel (executor of father's will) .
vii. Mary, m. Follansbce.

Jeremiah 3 Robinson had a son Zabulon, who wrote a letter (now
in my possession) dated Feb. 1G, 1787, to his brother Jeremiah, in which
he mentions "uncle Jonathau of Pembroke" (N. II.), and " uncle Daniel of
Exeter;'"' also "Aunt Williams" of Hampton Falls.

June 12, 1748, a deed of land was passed between John Robinson of
Exeter and Dr. Jeremiah Robinson of Haverhill, Mass. The deed was
not recorded until 17 G2, when the latter lived in Haverhill.

in rav

POSITIONS HELD BY ALUMNI.

By Richakd H. Gkeene, A.M., N. York city.

A COMPARISON of the earliest seven American colleges, that only
includes those who have been graduated and admitted to degrees,
cannot be made; for the reason that William and Mary College has never
separated those who were students at the College for a time, and claim to
have been educated there, from its graduates: therefore we shall coufine
our comparative table to the other six.

Some corrections need to be made of the papers heretofore issued, by
adding names accidentally omitted, dropping those which should not have
been inserted, and arranging each class so that only the same or similar
offices shall appear therein. In the Harvard article, for instance, under the
heading United States Judges are included Judges of the U. S. Supreme
Court, which in the other articles are by themselves; also U. S. Circuit and
District Judges which are classified together in the others, as well as Judges
of the U. S. Court of Claims. Lieutenant Governors, which are not
enumerated or named in the other articles, are named and numbered as
Governors in the Harvard paper. Judges of Supreme or Highest Courts
of States, etc., may also include other than Supreme, Superior and Court
of Appeals, which were all that were intended to be included under this
heading in the others.

It should be remembered, that often the most distinguished men at the
bar have never been elected or appointed to the bench. The same is true of
every office, without exception.

The following additions to Harvard College officers should be made, to
wit: Isaac E. Morse, 1829, Member of Congress; John Q. A. Brackett,
I860, Governor of Massachusetts; Timothy Cutler, 1701, Rector, Yale;
Horace Davis, 1849, President, University of California; William T. Reid,
1868, President, University of California; William D. Hyde, 1879, Presi-
dent, Bowdoin College. Chief Justice Richardson authorizes me to add
the omitted names to the lists for that University. William II. Appleton,
1864, declined appointment as president S war th more College.

Yale.
The number of Yale men appointed to Cabinet positions has been in-
creased since the publication by the selection of John W. Noble, class of
1851, Secretary of the Interior. Roger Griswold, 1780, was Secretary of

1890.]

Positions held hy Alumni.

287

"War, Feb. 3 to March 5, 1801. The term was so short the fact was over-
looked.

National offices should include Ashbel Smith, 1824, Secretary of State
Republic of Texas; A. Frank Judd, 18G2, Attorney General Sandwich
Islands; Ashbel Smith, 1824, Minister from Texas to Great Britain and
France.

Associate Justices U. S. Supreme Court :

1845, William B. Woods; 185G, David J. Brewer.

George E. Badger, 1813, was appointed but not confirmed, so his name
cannot be counted. The same is true of Ray Greene, 1784, appointed
but not confirmed, as U. S. District Judge. William Livingston, 1741,
declined appointment as minister to Holland; William Russell, 1700,
elected President of Yale and declined; C. A. Goodrich, 1810, declined the
Presidency of Williams; Gardiner Spring, 1805, declined the Presidency
of Dartmouth and Harvard.

United States Senators have been increased by the election of Anthony
Higgins, 1861, from Delaware.

United States Ministers should include Gideon H. Hollister, 1840, but
not the name of Ashbel Smith, for reasons stated above.

U. S. Judiciary, additions for Yale :
1778 Oliver Wolcott, Circuit : Vermont, Connecticut and New York.

I). J. Brewer, Circuit : Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska,

Colorada and Iowa.
Return J. Meigs, District : Michigan.
II. II. Haight, District: California.
Titus Ilosmcr, Judge, Maritime and Admiralty cases.
Truman Smith, Judge U. S. Court of Claims.

IT. Bidwell, 1827, is not included in the enumeration among U. S.
Ministers. He was U. S. Commissioner to Turkey, Greece, Syria and
Egypt. The following also may be mentioned, that it may appear they
were not overlooked, but they cannot be counted among members of the
National Congress.

1730 Oliver Partridge, Delegate to Stamp Act Congress.

1761 Jedediah Strong,

1762 John Baterson, " " Provincial "
.1771 John Brown, " "

The names of the following graduates it is claimed should be added,
among Members of Congress :

1767 John TreadwelL
1793 D. S. Boardman.

As there is doubt I will not count them.

State Court Judges :

1767 John Treadwell, Superior Ct. of Errors, Connecticut.

1787 Abraham Nott, Chf. Sup., S. C.

1791 Samuel M. Hopkins, Sup., New York.

.1792 William Marchant, Sup., Rhode Island.

•1793 David S. Boardman, Chf. Sup., Connecticut.

1808 Garrick Mallerv, Sup., Pennsylvania. /

1813 George E. Badger, Sup., N. C.

1813 A. B. Longstreet, Sup., Ga.

1820 Mason Brown, Sup., Kentucky.

1829 Henry Sherman, Chf., New Mexico.

1845 William B. Woods, Chancellor, Alabama.

1845 Wm. Smith, Chf. Sup., Canada.

1856

1785
1844
1757
1815

28S

Positions held by Alumni.

[July,

181?8

JS.M
1871

1875
18G1

1811

1847
1837

lfi'i3 E. W. Scvmour, Sup., Connecticut.

1m;2 A. Frank Jndcl, Chf. Sup., Sandwich Islands.

Ia73 S. O. Prentice, Sup., Connecticut.

Presidents of Colleges :
182* Trvon Edwards, Wilson.
Henry N. Day, Ohio Fern.
Henry R. Jackson, University, Georgia.
Kuftis C Crnmpton, Illinois.
Alhanus A. Moulton, Rio Grande.
William R. Harper, South Dakota.

James W. McLane, president of College of Physicians and Surgeons,
which is a department of Columbia.

We have no place for defeated candidates for the office of President and
Vice President of the United States to be counted, but may mention as
matters of history and interest:

17CG Jared Ingersoll, candidate for Vice President on ticket with De Witt
Clinton (Class of 178G, Columbia College) for 1'resident.
Francis Granger, Vice President, on ticket with Wm. II. Harrison.
B. Gratz Brown, received votes for each office in 1872.
Samuel J. Tildeu, candidate for President, 187G.

College of William and Mary.

We may correct the record, although we shall not be able to compare
the totals of this College with its contemporaries.

1803. Henry A. Dearborn was not Secretary of War. He was a son of
Henry Dearborn who held that office.

Henry Tazewell was Judge of. the Supreme Court of Appeals, Virginia,
also U. S. Senator and President pro-tempore of the Senate.

John L. Taylor, Chief Justice of North Carolina 1808-1829, was two
years at the College.

1772 St. George Tucker was U. S. Judge, District of Virginia.

1792 James Webb, was U. S. Judge, District of Florida.

1793 Robert Barrand Taylor, Judge, General Court of Virginia.
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Judge of Circuit, Missouri.

1799 H. St. George Tucker, Member of U. S. Congress.
1853 George D. Wise,

1799 II. St. George Tucker was tendered the Attorney Generalship of the United
States by President Jackson, but declined.

The Chief Justice of the United States, whose name appears on the cata-
logue of this College, was probably at the College for a very brief time;
history tells us what his engagements were at that time. These collections
have been published not as being complete, but in order to assist the work
of compiling the names of the graduates of this ancient University.

College of New Jersey.

It might be added to what was said concerning Princeton graduates and
the candidacy of Aaron Burr, that James A. Bayard, 1784, a federalist,
voted for him on each of thirty-six ballots, as the less of two evils, then he
voted a blank, because unwilling to vote for Jefferson, and so was instru-
mental in electing the latter.

James A. Pearce, 1822, was not confirmed as Secretary of the Interior,
and his mime should be omitted.

John Sergeant, 1795, declined a Cabinet position in 1841.

John Taylor, 1790, should be added as Governor of South Carolina.

Edward T. Green, 1854, U. S. Judge, District of New Jersey.

A. A. E. Taylor, 1854, President of Wooster University.

I860.]

Positions held by Alumni.

289

1841

1871
1860
18G9

Columbia College.

James IT. Mason Knox, President Lafayette College, Pennsylvania.
Seth Low, President Columbia College, New York.
Edgar M. Cullen, Judge Supreme Court, New York.
Willard liartlett, "

The table will differ from the numbers heretofore given, not only in the
additions and subtractions just shown, but also iu counting terms instead of
individuals when giving numbers of Presidents aud Vice Presidents of the
United States, also offices rather than individuals in Cabinet positions, t. e.
Timothy Pickering, Harvard, 1763, I count three times. He was Post
Master General, 1791; Secretary of War, January, 1795; Secretary of
State, December, 1795; which makes seventeen appointments for that
College instead of fifteen.

Inasmuch as Judges of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Bermuda and Sand-
wich Islands are enumerated under Judges Highest Courts in the Harvard
paper, the same arrangement will be followed in the table, and National
officers will not be entered otherwise.

Presidents U S.

Vice Presidents IT. S.

U. S. Cabinet Officers,

U. S. Ministers, &c.

U. S. Senators,

Del. and Mem. U. S. Congress,

Chief Justice U. S.

U. S. Supreme Assoc. Judges,

U. S. Circuit Judges,

U. S. District Judges,

Other U. S. Judges,

Judges Highest State Courts,

Governors^

College Presidents,

These six Universities represent as many colonies, all at the North, one
half in New England and the remainder iu the section since designated the
Middle States.

Virginia, the most populous colony, was second to support a college and
had a second Hampden Sidney before the Revolution ; these were the only-
colleges at that time in the southern colonies. Before the foundation of
the second in Virginia, New Jersey had established its second college at
New Brunswick ; and New Hampshire, the only one of the seven northern
colonies unrepresented above, had a college in 1770.

At the first census after the establishment of the government, Virginia
had a population of 746,610; the three Middle States, Pennsylvania, New
York and New Jersey, 958,632 ; and the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Rhode Island, 685,558. There had been some changes, but probably the
relative strength had changed but little.

If we compare the offices held by the two sections, we find sixty-seven
times in the century have U. S. Cabinet appointments been received by the
alumni of these six Universities, thirty-eight by New England, twenty-nine
by Middle State graduates. Seventy-nine diplomatic appointments have
been divided, fortj'-eight to New England, thirty-one to Middle States.

Seven hundred and seventy-one of their graduates have been chosen to
the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives ; four hundred and ninety-
six to the Eastern, two hundred and seventy-five to the Middle.

Harvard.

Yale.

N.J.

Pa.

Columb.

Brown.

161

189

153

114

176

290

Allertons of New England and Virginia.

[July,

Five hundred and fifty-three Judges of National and higher Courts have
been graduated, three hundred and eighty-seven at the East, one hundred
and sixty-six in Middle States. Of two hundred and fifty-two College
president^ one hundred and eighty-three have come from Yale, Harvard
and Rhode Island, sixty-nine from Pennsylvania, Columbia and New Jersey.
The former number eighty-seven Oovernors to sixty-nine of the latter.

We shall be glad to learn that the history of William and Mary has been
compiled, so that some future comparison may be made to take in that
important section. Every day the work is postponed it becomes more
difficult; even now it cannot be thoroughly done unless the assistance and
cooperation of many literary men is reinforced by the information of all the
friends of the Institution.

Erratum. — Vol. 43, page 377, for John E. Bullock read Jonathan llussell
Bullock.

ALLERTONS OF NEW ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA.

By Isaac J. Greenwood, A.M., of New York city.

ISAAC 1 ALLERTON, a young tailor from London, was married at the
Stadhuis, Leyden, 4 November, 1611, to Mary Norris (Savage says
"Collins"), maid from Newbury, co. Berks. At the same time and place
was married his sister Sarah, widow of John Vincent, of London, to Degory
Priest, hatter,, from the latter place.* Priest, freeman of Leyden 16
November, 1615, came out on the Mayflower in 1G20, and died, soon after
landing, 1 January, 1620-1 ; his widow, who had remained behind, married
3d, at Leyden, 13 November, 1621, Goddard Godbert (or Cuthbert Cuth-
bortson), a Dutchman, who came with his wife to Plvmouth in the Ann,
1623, and both died in 1633.

Allerton a freeman of Leyden 7 February 1614; save his brother-in-law
Priest, and the subsequent Governor of the Colony, Wm. Bradford, none
others of the company appear to have attained this honor. He was one of
the Mayflower pilgrims in 1620, and was accompanied by his wife Mary,
and his children Bartholomew, Remember and Mary. John Allerton. a
sailor, who designed settling in the new colony, died before the vessel sailed
on her return voyage, and Mrs. Mary Allerton died 25 February, 1021.

About 1G26 Isaac Allerton married his 2d wife, Fear Brewster, who died
at Plymouth, 12 December, 1634. How soon after this he was again mar-
ried is not apparent, but in 1644 a third wife, Johanna, is mentioned. The
earlier incidents of Allerton's New England life, until his leaving the Bay
Colony, are well known. He then appears to have settled in New Haven,
where he commenced trading with the Dutch, and on 20 Jan. 1642, sold
his yacht " Hope" to Govert Loockermans of New Amsterdam. The fol-
fowing year he and Loockermans had a grant in the latter town of two lots
on the Great Highway, some 8 rods wide by 18 rods deep, running back

• The records of St. Dionis, Backohurch, London, give the marriaee of Edward
Allerton of that parish, to Rose Davis of St. Peter's, Conihill, 14 Feb. 1579-30; the wife
•umvetl her husband six years and died in June, 1596; possibly they were the parents of
l*jue and Sarah. ' v

1890.] Allertons o/JVew England and Virginia.

291

to the Marsh. These lots are later mentioned in a grant of 1 644 to Ilen-
drick Jansen Smith; in one of 1G45 to Edward Marrel ; and in a transfer
of March 15, 1652, from Barent Meyndertsen and Wessel Evertsen to
Coenradt Ten Eyck. The " Duke's Plan" of New York, 16G1, represents
Alderton's Buildings, on the East River, outside of the city limits, just
60uth of the "Passage Place" to L. L, and the same occurs on the
"Nicoll's Map," 1G64-G8. Allerton evidently resided some time in New
Amsterdam, for when an uprising of the Indians in the neighborhood was
feared, and, at the request of Director Kieft, the Commonalty elected, 13
Sept. 1G43, eight Selectmen for counsel and advice on public affairs, Aller-
ton was one of the number. Letters of complaint were then sent abroad
depicting the defenceless condition of the colony, and prominent among
those who obtained signatures to these documents was Isaac Allerton.
Denounced as a batch of libels and lies, the ex-Director Kieft implored his
successor Stuyvesant, 18 June, 1G47,* that the Fiscal might prosecute the
offenders. About this time Allerton removed back to New Haven, though
still maintaining a trading-house on Manhattan Island. Certainly in a
deed of Oct. 27, 1G46, he calls himself a merchant of New Amsterdam,
while in a bond to him of Nov. 29, 1G51, from Jonathan Brewster, he is
styled "Isack Allerton, Senior, of Newhaven, Merchant."

At an earlier date than Brewster's bond, viz., July 9, 1651, we find
"Isaac Allerton of Suffolk, merchant," a witness, at Fort Nassau on the
east bank of the South (or Delaware) River, to a free gift of land from
certain Sachems to the Director General Stuyvesant.

June 27, 1G50, a town ordinance of New Amsterdam forbade the run-
ning at large of cattle, &c, between the Fortress, which had just been
repaired, "and the Hon. Company's farm, to the end of their High Mighti-
nesses' pasture-ground, at present occupied by Thomas Hill, nor betweeu
the house of Mr. Isaac Allerton, in the penalty of," &c.

A letter of John Davenport of New Haven, dated 27 Sept. 1G54, men-
tions Mr. Allerton as being then on a voyage to Virginia.

The Records of New Haven show that his Inventory was brought into
Court, 5 April, 1659, the son Isaac being away at the time. The latter
produced his father's will 5 July following, and was appointed to settle the
estate ; but the next day relinquished this trust to certain others, although
the Court endeavored to persuade him to the contrary, as being "the de-
ceased's eldest or onely sonne." In fact, the son Isaac is the only child
referred to in the will, which mentions debts in Barbadoes, Delaware Bay
and Virginia. Isaac Allerton, Jr., purchased his father's house from the
creditors, and, by deed of 4 October, 1GG0, conveyed it to his stepmother
for life, with remainder to his daughter Elizabeth. Mrs. Johanna Allerton
died iu 1G82, the deed was confirmed on 10 March, 1682-3, the property

to Mrs. Elizabeth Eyre, after whose death iu 174U it was pulled
His children were:

Bartholomews 2 b. in Holland about 1G12 ; came with father to Ply-
mouth, -where lie still was in 1C27, but returned soon after to
England, where, according to Bradford, he m. and continued to
live.

Remember, living in Plymouth, 1G27; not heard of after.

Mary, b. in 1GIG; m. Elder Thomas Cushman of Plymouth, who d.
10 Dec. 1G91, aged 83; she died in 1699, the last survivor of the
Mayflower pilgrims.

* If any Isaac Allerton joined the Church at Salem in 1647, as Savage says, I am inclined
to think it was his son, though the latter was then a student at college.

passing
down.

ii.
iii.

292

Allertons of New England and Virginia. [July,

lv. Sarah, said to have come out with Ler aunt, Mrs. Cuthbertson,
from Holland, in 1G2J; m. about 1638, Moses Maverick, of Marble-
head and Salem, and died about 1G5G, leaving children.
2. v. Isaac (by 2d wife).

2. Isaac* Allerton, b. in Plymouth, 1G30; Harv. Coll. 1C50; settled in
Virginia. His plantation in Westm. Co. is laid down on Herrman's
Map of Virginia and Maryland, engraved by Faithorue, 1C70, in
March of which year, he, with his neighbors John Lee, Henry
Corbin* and Thomas Gerrard, surgeon, entered into a compact for
building a banquetting-house at or near their respective lauds. Ger-
rard, professedly a Roman Catholic, lived many years in Maryland,
was of the Council, and then removed to a plantation on Masthotiek
(or Machotick) Creek, the southern boundary of Westm. Co., Va.;
by his will of 5 February, 1G72, he appoints Major Isaac Allerton,
John Lee and John Cooper to settle his estate. Called a Papist,
Allerton is said to have been appointed by James II. to supply the
place of Col. Philip Ludwell, about 1G87, as Collector of Customs
for York River, and, at a Council, held at James City, 18 October,
1688, he and others were present with the Governor, Lord Howard
of Effingham. As early as 1652 he had a wife Elizabeth, and
Hutchinson, in Hist, of Mass., ii. 461 (pub. 17G7), speaks as though
there were male offspring in Maryland at that time, but whether
he married a second time does not appear; if not, he certainly
formed so close a friendship with Mr. Thomas Willoughby, oi: Eliza-
beth City, as to name a son for him, viz.: Willoughby Allerton.
Mr. Willoughby, born in Virginia on Christmas, 1G32, and edu-
cated in Merchant Taylors' School, London, styles himself, in deeds
of 1688-9, Thomas Willoughby of Elizabeth River, in county of
Lower Norfolk, Virginia, gentleman, sole son and heir of the Hon.
Lt. Col. Thomas Willoughby of same parish and county. He mar-
ried Margaret Herbert, had one son Thomas, f a daughter who
married the Rev. Moses Robertson of St. Stephen's parish, co.
Westm., and a daughter Sarah, who dying single in 1740, mentions
in her will of January 19, 1738, her brother, Thomas Willoughby,
and her cousins (nephews) Thomas, Samuel, William and Allerton
Willoughby, also her cousin John Willoughby Robertson.

Neill, in his " Virginia Carolorum," states that in an expedition
against the Indians (the Marylanders being under Major Thomas
Trueinan and the Virginians under Col. John Washington), Col.
George Mason and Major Isaac Allerton united their forces about
Sept. 27, 1G75. Finding no enemy, they laid siege for six weeks
to a neighboring fort of friendly Susquehannas, who, finally stealing
away by night, soon bitterly retaliated upon the whites. In 1679
it was enacted that a garrison or store-house should be erected at
the heads of the four principal rivers, and Maj. Isaac Allerton with
Col. St. Leger Codd and Col. George Mason were appointed to
superintend building a house, 60X22, and a magazine 10 feet
square, at Neapsico, near Occaquan, on the Potomac River.

The will of the Hon. Isaac Allerton, of Westm. Co., Va., dated
25 October, 1702, witnessed by Humphrey Morriss, John Gerrard
and Daniel Occany, was proved SO December following. He

See Note 1.

t See Note 2.

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describes himself as sick of body, and, after a pious prelude, dis-
poses of his estate as follows : To Church of Cople parish, £10 ster-
ling; to daughter Sarah Lee, and grandson Allerton Newton, two
tracts of land in. Stafford County; "to my dear daughter Elizabeth
Starr, al" Heirs who live in New England, GOO acres of land, part
of a dividend of 2,150 acres on south side of Rappahannock River
to her the said Elizabeth and such of her children as she shall dis-
pose of the same to, but in case the said Elizabeth be dead before
the date of this my will, I will & devise the said 600 acres of land
to her eldest son and to his heirs forever " ; he also gives to her
heirs the sum of 2.000 lbs. of tobacco, to be paid upon demand, and
5,000 lbs. to daughter Sarah Lee; and as daughter Traverse "has
had a suiFicient part or proportion of my estate given her in con-
sideration of marriage, 1 do therefore for memorial sake give unto
her three daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Winifred Traverse, the
sum of 1,000 lbs. of tobacco apiece" when 17 years of age or upon
marriage; to grandson, Allerton Newton, 1,000 lbs. of tobacco when
21 years of age ; " all the remaining part of my lands & tene-
ments not above bequeathed, how or wheresoever situate and being
to my well beloved son Willoughby Allertou and to his heirs for-
ever"; he also bequeaths his son all his personal estate, goods and
chattels, real and personal, of what kind, sort or quality soever the
same be, and appoints him executor. His children were :

i. Elizabeth, 3 b. at New Haven, Conn., 27 Sept. 1053; m. 23 Dec.
1G75, Benjamin Starr, of New Haven, who d. 1G76, aged 31, leaving
son:

1. Allerton, 4 b. G Jan. 1G77.
She m. 2d, on 22 July, 1G79, Simon Eyre (or Heyres), sea cap-
tain, of New Haven, b. G Aug. 1G52, her first husband's cousin,
who died in 1G95-, and had sons Simon and Isaac. Eyre had an
uncle, Thomas, who d. in Virginia, 1GGG, aged 44. Mrs. Eyre d.
17 Nov. 1740.

ii. Isaac, b. in New Haven, 11 June, 1G55. A recently published gene-
alogy of the family states that he accompanied his father to
Virginia when a child, but returned to New Haven about 1G83,
and had there from 1G85-D0 three sons, Johu, Jesse, and Isaac
(who died young) ; that he removed to Norwich, Conn., and
subsequently with his son John to Coventry, K. L, where he
soon died. That the son John hud eight children, of -whom
Isaac, b. at Norwich in 1724, d. in Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y.,
2G Dec. 1807.
We know that this statement contains errors, and the whole
' seems very problematical ; suffice it to say that Isaac Allerton the
third is not even alluded to in the will of his father, as we have
seen. It must be admitted, however, that a John Allerton was
Selectman of Norwich, Conn., in 1721, and had children there
baptized as early as 1713, and that an Isaac Allerton of Amenia
Precinct, N. Y., had a will of 25 Dec. 1804, proved in Dutchess
Co., N. Y., 13 Jan. 1808, thoiurh the earliest of the name there
located was Jonathan, who signed the "Association" in June,
1775.

iii. Sakaii, b. ; m. Hancock Lee, whose first wife was a Miss

Kendall. He had children by both marriages, and settled in what
is now Great Wycomico parish, Northumberland Co., building the
mansion called " Ditchley," where, in 172t>, he was buried beside
his two wives. He and his brother John Lee, before mentioned,
• were sons of Col. Richard Lee, of Virginia, descended from the

— -" Shropshire Lees, but " lately of Stratford Langton, in the county

of Essex," as he states in his will of 1GG3.

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j v> , t another dan., m. Newton, and had son Allerton,* men-
tioned in grand father's will, 1702.

r> -. another dau., in. Traverse, and had dauS. Elizabeth, Rebecca

and Winifred, mentioned in their grandfather's will, 1702.
3. ri. Willougiiijy, b. ; m. Hannah Bnshrod, widow.

3. Willodghby 3 Allerton m. Hauiiah Bushrod, widow of John

Bushrod,f of Nominy Plantation, with two children by her former
marriage, Hannah and Sarah. Mr. Allerton was Dep. Coll. of
Customs for York River, 1711; whatever else we know of him is
gathered from his will, drawn up on the 16th and 17th of Jan.
1723-4, and proved 25 March following. lie calls himself Wil-
loughby Allerton, Gent., of the co. of Westmoreland, in Virginia, *

sick and weak in body, etc., and directs his executors that he " be
interred in silence, without any show of funebrious rites and solemn-
ities, and that my grave be impall' 1 with a brick wall, together with
all the rest of my friends & ancestors, a year's time after my death,
* * * and further I desire that none of my friends may wear any-
thing of mourning-cloathing in representacou of grief and sorrow for
my death." He theu directs his executors to settle all his just
debts, selling, if necessary, the whole or part of the tract of land,
some 500 acres, upon which he was living, situated on the west side
of Machotick Creek, part of which had been patented by George
Watts. This same land, or whatever is left of it, he gives to his
son Isaac and his heirs forever; he also leaves him his scarlett
cloak, with the horse-furniture, and requests that his sword " be
sent to England and a new blade put in, also a scabbard made, and
a false scabbard for my son Isaac." He also leaves land and part '
of personal estate to his daughter, Elizabeth Allerton, and makes
provision for the support of his own and his wife's children. To
his wife Hannah he gives back all the negroes, cattle, horses, sheep,
etc., which may be found on the several plantations once belonging
to the estste of Capt. John Bushrod, which she had brought to him
at her marriage; also all the household goods, merchandise, etc.,
" which were brought home from Nominy " ; also " the school-master
Joshua Nelson, as also three white servants more, viz. : Johu Carney,
Eliz a Morell and John Brenan ; also "my two boats with the
rigging & sales"; also "the plantation at the Narrows of Machotick
for her natural life, &c. &c." ; also " one mourning-ring of lifteeu
shillings and one new caudle-cup lately come out of England"; also
" a young horse named Rebel" ; also "whatever goods may be in
the House, or may be coming, or sent for out of England," &c " I
also ordain & constitute my dear son Ex r of this my last will &
testament, and my said wife and Capt. George Tuberville Ex™ trust
during my son Isaac's minority." His children were:

i. Elizabeth, 4 b. ; m. Quills, and had children, Sarah and

Margaret, living 1739.

4. ii. Isaac.

4. Isaac 4 Allerton (son of Willoughby and Hannah A.), born -,

was not of age in January, 1723-4, and in probate of will is called

"gentleman of Cople parish, co. Westm." This instrument, dated

31 March, 1739, was proved 27 November following. To wife Ami

' he gives one third of all his lauds, including the plantation he was

* See Note 3. t See Note 4.

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living upon, for life or during widowhood. His entire estate, real
and personal, to be divided between his three sons Gawin (or Gowen),
Willoughby and Isaac, as they respectively arrive at the age of 21
"years. Isaac is spoken of as weakly, and provision made in case
" he should grow up lacking the right use of his limbs. Directions
are given for the liberal education of the boys, who, if they do not
take to the same, are to be bound out, when 15 years of age, to such
mechanic's trade as they may make choice of. In case of the death
of the three boys under age, he bequeaths one half of his entire
estate to Sarah and Margaret, children of his sister Elizabeth Quills,
and the other half to his cousins John Beale and his brothers
Charles, Taverner, Richard and Reuben. He appoints his wife Ann,
his friend John Bushrod, and Daniel Hornby, gentlemen, executors.
His children were:

i. Gawin,* b. ; not 15 in 1739.

ii. Isaac, b. ; not 15 in 1739.

iii. Willoughby, b. ; not 15 in 1739 ; called in his will of 30 June,

1759, proved 25 September following, " Gent, of Westmoreland
Co." He gives his wife Ann one third of all his lands and negroes
in Virginia and elsewhere, all furniture in house and out-houses,
his post chaise and the two horses that draw it; to his two sisters-
in-law, Jane and Alice Carrie, dans, of Mr. David Currie, the re-
maining two third parts of his estate ; to Capt. Hancock Eustice
£700 currency; to His friend Richard Lee, Esq., and his heirs,
200 acres of land adjoining his, and appoints him with Rev. Mr.
David Currie, executors.

Notes.

1. — Henry Corbin, born 1620, merchant of London, came out in. 1654,
and settled in Stratton Major parish, King and Queen's Co., Va. ; his eldest
daughter Laetitia died 6 October, 1706, ie. 49, wife of Richard Lee, Esq.
(son of Richard Lee), who died 12 March, 1714, 02. 68. and was buried in
the Burnt-house fields, Mt. Pleasant, Cople parish, co. Westra. The eldest
sort, Thomas, ob. s.p. ; the second, Gawin, was president of the Council of
Virginia, married daughter of William Bassett. and had 3 sons and 4 daugh-
ters : Gawin, of the Council, whose d. and h. Martha married George Tur-
berville; Richard, of Laneville, whose influence procured and sent George
Washington a commission in 1754; John, settled in Maryland: Jenny,
married Rush rod; Joanna, married Maj. Robert Tucker; Aliqe, mar-
ried Benjamin Needier, vestryman, of Stratton Major; the fourth daughter
married an Allerton. — (See Meade's "Ch. and Farm of Va.")

2. — Thomas Willoughby the third, died in summer of 1753, and was
succeeded by his eldest son, John Willoughby, Sr., who by will of August,
1776, leaves his son of the same name, the manor which he had taken up
for himself and patented, called Sandy Point (afterwards Willoughby
Point), and " a seal gold ring." This ring is again mentioned in the son's
(John Willoughby, Jr.) will of February, 1786, proved September, 1791,
as " one seal gold ring with the picture with my Court of Armes on it,"
and is left to son Thomas of the sixth generation.

3. — Allerton Newton was doubtless akin to Capt. Willoughby Newton,
of Westm. Co., whose wife Sarah, daughter of George Eskridge, died 2
December, 1753, a3. 46; parents of John, whose son Willoughby married
widow~of Richard Lee of Lee Hall (same Co.), maiden name Poythress. —
(Meade.)

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4. John Bushrod, born in Glouc. Co., Va., 30 January, 1003, died 6

February, 1719, leaving widow Hannah, daughter of William Keene of co.
North. — (Meade.)

gggf*» The late Hon. Henry W. Cushman of Bernardston, Mass., prepared a,
minute and somewhat elaborate biography of Isaac Allertou, from the materials
that were then accessible. This biography he intruded to print in the Cushman
Genealogy, which he "was then preparing and wlrch he published in ls55. An
abridgement of this paper appeared in the Register for July, 1854 (vol. 8, pp.
65-70). The full article never was printed, the article in the Cushman volume,
owing to want of space, being only an abstract. — Editor.

GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.

By Henry F. Waters, A.M., now residing in London, England.
[Continued from page 200.]

Sir Edward Brett of Blendenhall in Bexley parish in the County of
Kent Knight and Sergeant Porter to the King's Majesty, 22 December
1682 with codicil of 7 "November 1G8.3, proved 17 March 1083. I pur-
chased of Edward Brewster deceased all that the capital messuage or man-
sion House as called Blendon Hall, situate and being in the parish of Bex-
ley &c. (and other lands aud tenements). To the children of Henry Fisher
of Greeton, Northampton, gent., by Elizabeth his wife. To the heirs of
Stephen Buckingham of Gray's Inn, London, Esq., and Richard Watson
of St. Margaret's Westminster, gent. To the several children of my niece
Anne Isham, the daughter of my sister Mary Isham, viz. : Richard Wat-
hew, John Wathew, Henry Wathew, Alice Wathew and Sarah Wathew.
To the two daughters of my nephew Henry* Isham late of Virginia de-
ceased, by Katherine his wife, two hundred pounds apiece, to be paid unto
them within twelve months after my decease. To John, Nathaniel and
Edward Fisher, sons of the said Henry Fisher. To Alice Grove, of Lon-
don widow, and my god daughter Anne Grove. To my kinsman Owen
Norton of Sherrington, Bucks, Esq. My kinsman Stephen Buckingham
of Gray's Inn, Esq., and my kinsman Richard Watson. I give my carpen-
tine cup to my cousin Charles Brett's widow. I give mv old cup with the
Brett's arms thereupon engraven, and tipt with silver, to my cousin
Margaret Duncumbe widow. Reference to a former will bearing date 10
January 1681-2 in which was a. bequest to my cousin Charles Brett Esq.,
lately deceased. My said cousin Mary Brett his widow.

In the codicil, bequests are made to Robert Norton and others.

Hare, 27.

[This will of Sir Edward Brett should have accompanied the will of his kins-
man, Richard Watson, published in the April number of these .^lcanin^s (page
193). Whether the testator was related to the other Bretts whose wills are
ffiven in this number I cannot say. According to the late Rev. Frederick
Brown, M.A., F.S.A., he belonged to the Brett family of White Staunton, an
early pedigree of which family may be found in the Visitation of London, 15GS
XHarleian ^oc Bub., i. 47). Robert Brett, citizen and merchant tailor of London,
had four sons (see pedigree.) , of whom William, the second, was of Toddington,
Beds., and father of the above testator. Edward Brett, born 1G08, married
Barbara, only daughter of Sir John Fleming, Kt., and was himself knighted by

1890.]

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Charles I„ 31 Aug. 1044, after a gallant charge upon the Parliamentary forces at
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, where he "received a shott in his left arm, and having
brought his men off, retreated to be drest, when the King called him and took
his sword which was drawn in his hand and knighted him on his horse's back."

"Sir Edward Brett died, s. p., aged 75, Feb. 12, 1682-3, and is buried in
Bexley Church, Kent, where there is an elaborate monumental inscription
recording his military services in behalf of King Charles, and afterwards in the
Netherlands, under William, then Prince of Orange."

Henry Isham, whose will has also been given in the January number of the
Register (page 93), was a kinsman, being the son of Henry Isham deceased,
whom Sir Edward calls "my nephew," by Katherine his wife. — Henry F.
"Waters.

The two daughters of Henry Isham, mentioned in this will, were Mary, wife
of William Randolph of " Turkey Island." and Anne, wife of Francis Eppes.
Brett Randolph, grandson of William and Mary (Isham) Randolph, and son of
Richard and Jane (Rolling) Randolph, married (in Gloucestershire, England,
where he lived and died), Mary Scott of Loudon, and had issue. — II. A. Brock
of Richmond, Va.J

Codicil. I William: Claiborne of Virginia at present in London, mer-
chant &c, do declare that whereas I some time since made my last will and
testament in Virginia aforesaid and appointed executors therein who reside
there, I therefore confirm and ratify the same in all its parts and do hereby
order, direct and appoint, by way of addition thereto, M r John Hanbury of
London, Merchant, to be my executor here in England in order for him to
recover and get in my outstanding debts and effects, and after my decease
to remit the same to the order of my other executors in the said will named.
16 May 1740.

This codicil was proved at London 17 July 1746. Edmunds, 202.

[This William Claiborne was presumably the son of Lt. Col. Thomas Clai-
borne, b. Aug. 17, 1G49; m. Dandridge; k. by Indians, Oct. 7, 1GS3, and

grandson of Col. Win. Claiborne, "the rebel." — R. A. Brock.]

John Dodge of Middlechinnock, 2 April 1G35, proved 15 October 1035.
To be buried in the church yard there. To the church ten shillings. The
same to the poor of the parish. To the minister, for preaching funeral
sermon, ten shillings. Wife Margery shall hold and enjoy one tenement
in the parish of Halstoeke, co. Dorset, containing by estimation ten acres
more or less, during her life natural, if my sons Michael and William shall
happen so long to live. To wife Margery forty pounds and the bed that I
now lie in and the bedstead and all things belonging thereunto. I give and
bequeath unto her so much of my other household stuff as shall amount to
four pounds, of such kinds as she shall think most needful and useful for
her.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son William forty pounds more over
and above that portion which I have already given him. To my son Rich-
ard one sheep and to take his choice in my whole -flock; and to John' the
son of the said Richard forty shillings. To Mary my daughter twenty
shillings and to her son John forty shillings. And my will is that all these
goods shall be delivered half a year after my decease.

Item, all the rest of my goods un mentioned I give and bequeath unto my
son Michael whom I make and ordain the executor of this my last will and
testament.

Witnesses Geo. Parsons, clerk, William Dodge, William Templeman.

Sadler, 101.

[William and Richard Dodge came over to Beverly. Each had a son Wil-
liam. There came a fourth William (son of Michael), who, to distinguish him
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from hts undc William, and his two cousins of the name, was called William

\)<h\"<- of Coker, or sometimes Coker William Docile. Cliinnoek and Coker are

n<-i"h»H.rimr parishes in the extreme south or southeast part of Somersetshire.

Ilalstock, Dorset, referred to in the will, is just over the line, south of these

narislies.— H. F. Waters.

William Dodge arrived in the "Lyons Whelpc" in 1029, made free in 1037.

Iflth, 5 mo. 1C38 Richard Dodge had 10 acres granted in Salem. 20th, 9 mo.

p;:;sRichard and William had four score acres granted in Salem between them.

Both were iirst at Salem, then in Beverly.
Richard's first son was John, b. 10:31 ; det. by record of death. William's first

son was John, b. 1030 ; det. by record of death. William Dodge, son of Michael,

b. 1C35; m. in Beverly, Elizabeth, dan. of Roger Haskell; had two sons and
Seven daughters, among them a Mighill and Margery.

Richard's will, dated 14th, 9 mo. 1070. pr. 1 mo. 1071, says, " And whereas I
haue land in England let to my brother Michael Dodge for fourc pound p' annum,
I doe hereby acquitt my brother from ail dues and demands concerninge the
saide rent during my life, but after my decease I giue and bequathe to my wife
and my son John the saicle rent to be annually paid them during their said lifes
according to the tenure of the lease."

In 1092, Capt. Jno. Dodge, Jr., of Beverly, deeds to his cousin William Dodge,
2d, yeoman, 10 acres because of his father William Dodge's [Farmer William, so
called] promise so to do providing he should come out to this country. — Ira J.
Patch, of Salem, Mass.]

Mary Sheppky of the parish of St. Mary in the Strand, als Savoy, in
the County of Midd., widow, 4 June 10 2 4, proved 18 March 1G24. To
my friend John Brett, of the parish of St. Clement Danes, in the said
County, citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, twenty pounds of currant
English money, whom I make and ordain full and sole executor of this my
last will and testament. I give unto the four children of my son Robert
Chapman, late of Newcastle upon Tyne, twenty pounds, to be equally di-
vided and paid unto them, or the survivors of them, at their several ages
of twenty and one years or days of marriage, which shall first happen. I
give to my daughter Martha Vaughan ten pounds. I give to my grand-
child Mary Walford twenty shillings to make her a ring. I give to M r
Nicholas Paye twenty shillings to make him a ring. 1 give to Captain
Thomas Brett twenty shillings to make him a ring. I give to my neigh-
bors M r9 Joan Dannson, ten shillings, MT Thomas Bratt, twenty shillings,
M™ Anne Pastolow, ten shillings, and Margery Tincombe, twenty shil-
lings^, to make each of them a ring. To my god daughter Mary Cunisbie
twenty shillings to make her a ring. To my cousin Elizabeth Bacon, widow,
ten pounds, to be paid unto her within six months next after my decease,
and to Henry, George, Mary and William Bacon, her four children, each
of them a piece of gold of the value of twenty and two shillings. To my
neighbor M rs Elisabeth Shaw ten shillings to make her a ring. To my
cousin M™ Clare Bucke twenty shillings to make her a ring. To Symon
Gomond forty shillings, to be paid him at his full age of twenty and one
years. Further my mind and will is that after my debts, funeral charges
and bequests be paid, or so much deducted out of my estate as will pay
them at their several times of limitation, that then all the remainder of my
estate shall be divided into six just and equal parts, the which, being so
divided, I give and bequeath unto the six children of my son in law Richard
M aters, late of London, draper, deceased, as namely, I give one part of
thereof unto George Waters, one other part unto Margaret Waters, one
other part unto Elizabeth Waters the wife of my said executor, one other
part unto Martha Waters, one other part unto Lettice Waters and the
other part unto Rebecca Waters. And I do nominate and appoint my
good friends and neighbors Thomas Bratte and Morris Shawe for over-

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seers, and do give to the said Morris Shawe twenty shillings to make
him a ring. Clarke, 34.

Percival Brett of St. Martin's in the Fields, London, 7 May 1G38,
proved 24 May 1G38. To the poor of the town and parish of Tenterden.
To the poor soldiers of the town and garrison of Portsmouth. To my two
god children born and christened in the parish of Tenterden, named and
known by the names of Annis Winchester and Mary Nevill, as I remember.
To John Younge, the son of Dorothy Hodges, born at Coventry and brought
up at one M 1 Younge's at the Red Cross in Queen's Street. To my cousin
Robert Brett of Fayerheld in Kent. To Richard Brett of Portsmouth.
To Percival Wiyill of Portsmouth and to Thomas Wivill. To my cousin
Beane's wife of Bidenden. To my eldest brother John Brett, my brother
Thomas Brett and my youngest brother Richard Brett. To my cousin
Anne Wivill, lately married. My wife shall have all my lands &c. in the
County of Kent during her natural life. There is given by bond to me by
my uncle Capt Thomas Brett fifteen hundred pounds to be paid to me after
his decease. If he be living at the time of my decease I do quit, relinquish
and forgive the debt. My said uncle to be executor. Lee, 61.

Thomas Brett of St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex, 30 November
1638, proved 14 January 1G38. For the disposing of my worldly goods,
as I was never covetous in seeking them so I will leave them without much
curiosity amongst my poor kindred and some few friends. To my loving
sister only now living one hundred pounds. To John Brett the son of my
eldest brother John live pounds to buy a piece of plate, and to my loving
cousin his wife the like proportion, and to all their children twenty shil-
lings apiece at ten years of age, and the two other former sons to the
parents to be paid within one year after my decease. Having given by
deed unto my cousin Robert Wivill two hundred pounds, as well for his
own advancement in marriage as for the better enabling him to relieve his
poor brethren and sisters, 1 give to the other children of my sister Wivell,
viz. Elizabeth, Alice, Amye, Mary and Percival Wyvill, fifty pounds to be
equally divided amongst them. To Thomas Wyvill, who hath served me
faithfully some years, two hundred pounds. To the children of my sister
Nower, viz. John, Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth and Daniel Nower. three
score pounds, to be equally divided &c. To my cousin John Brett, dwell-
ing at the Golden Ball in the Strand, five'pounds and to my cousin his wife
forty shillings, and to every one of their children twenty shillings apiece at
fifteen years of age. To the sister of John Brett now married to Svmon
Porter three pounds, and ten shillings apiece to every one of her children.
To ten of the poorest and most impotent persons of the parish of Great
Charte in Kent, where I was boru and baptized; To my godson John
Brett, the son of Henry Brett of Great Charte, rive pounds. To my cousin
Robert Brett of Fairerield and his brother Richard Brett of Portsmouth
twenty pounds between them. To my cousin Robert Brett who iodgeth
in my house forty shillings to buy him a ring. The perverseness of Tho-
mas Goddyn hath been the true cause of the deferring the execution of my
brother Steven his will. Refers to a portion due to M rs Thornhill, being
the legacy of Sir Richard Smith. Remainder to cousins Thomas and
Richard Brett, sons of my eldest brother John Brett aud they two to be
executors.

Codicil 21 December 1G38. Cousin Steven Nower, left out in Will
A legacy of twenty pounds to him. * Harvey, 10.

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Richard Brett of London, haberdasher, 18 September 1643, proved
12 May 1G45. I have ventured the sum of five hundred pounds upon the
propositions made by both houses of Parliament for the quelling and sup-
pressing of the rebels in Ireland. To my cousins Mildred, Sarah and Mary
the three daughters of my brother Thomas. To the eldest son of mv
brother Thomas. To my Aunt Nowell the wife of Daniel Nowell. To
my cousin Pannell, sister of my brother John's wife. To my cousin Whit-
ledge, brother to my brother John's wife living now in London. To my
brother Thomas his wife's sister M rs Wills. To my cousins Robert and
Thomas Wivill and their wives. To the wives of my brothers John and
Thomas Brett. To my uncle Celhurst [or Colhurst?] and his daughter,
my cousin, M rs Austen. Sundry people living in Tenterdeu mentioned.
Brother John's three daughters. Brother Thomas his three children.
Refers to will of uncle Capt. Thomas Brett. To my nephew John Brett,
son of my eldest brother John. Rivers, G9.

Thomas Brett of Tenterdeu, Kent, gentleman, 13 November 1646,
proved 4 January 1648. To wife Sarah the lease and term of years yet
to come and unexpired which I now have of and in the messuage I now
dwell in, with the lands thereunto belonging. My seal ring of gold and the
great cypress chest now standing in the Hall to my son John Brett. To
my servant and kinsman Thomas Brett and Mary his sister live pounds
apiece.

Item I give and bequeath to my very loving brother Mr. John Brett,
citizen and merchant taylor of London, the sum of ten pounds. And I do
hereby make, constitute and ordain the said John Brett, my brother, execu-
tor of this my last will and testament. My friends Shemaial Selherst and
Mr. Thomas Taylor and my loving brother, Thomas Wills, to be overseers.
To all my children. My sister Fiuche. now wife of Mr. John Finch.

Fairfax, 15. !

John Brett, citizen & merchant taylor of London, 3 July 1684, with
memorandum made 9 November 1685, proved 13 January 16$5. To my
son Matthew Meriton and his wife, each twenty-five pounds within six
months after my decease. To my son John Archer and his wife, each (a
similar legacy). To my son John Dauling Esq. and his wife twenty -five
pounds each, to be allowed out of the hundred pounds that he is indebted
to me by a bond. To my son Matthew Meriton and his wife each ten
pounds, to buy them mourning. The same to John Archer & his wife,
and John Dauling & his wife. To my son John Brett's wile, as a legacy,
twenty five pounds. To my servant Susannah Watts, to buy her mourn-
ing, four pounds, besides a legacy of ten pounds. To my sister Roulte and
my sister Tayler, that was and my sister Marsh, and my sister Sherbrooke,
each of them forty shillings. To the three daughters of my brother Tho-
mas Brett Deceased forty shillings each. Unto William Stevens, John
Powell, Francis Brand, Matthew Gibbons, each of them forty shillings.
To M r Loves and M r . Claxton each five pounds. To the poor of the *

church ten pounds, to be distributed by the two teachers and the deacons
to those that have most need. To my cousin Sick's wife and to my cousin
_ Noble, each, forty shillings. To my cousin Bix, widow, forty shillings and
also the five pounds that her husband was indebted to me. To my grand-
son Backwell and his wife and to his children that shall be living at the
time of my decease, each of them ten pounds apiece, to be paid to my J

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grandson Backwell for himself and all the rest six months after my decease.
To my son John Archer's children ten pounds apiece, to be improved for
them until their age of twenty one years. To my grandson Meriton ten
pounds when he hath served his apprenticeship. To my grandson Shcr-
brooke the elder & his wife, and also to his children that shall he living at
the time of my decease, ten pounds apiece, all to be paid to their father six
months after my decease ; and more to my grandson Sherbrooke and his
wife ten pounds apiece, in six months &c. ; and also the like in case he
have any children by his wife: and more to my grandson Dulling when" he
attains the age of twenty one years, ten pounds, and to his two sisters, each
of them ten pounds, to be paid six mouths after my decease. Unto the
widow Browne twenty shillings.

I do give unto my son John Brett the moity or half part of the lands &
tenements and hereditaments lying & being in the Parish of Tenterden,
Smalhood, Brencett and Warhorne, being known by the same names or
the like, being in the County of Kent; which said lands are in the hands
of Richard Marsh, during his wife's life, Kathern, who was the wife of my
brother Percival Brett; but, in case my son John Brett have no son, then
after his decease I do give the moiety of the aforesaid lands unto my said
two daughters Sarah Archer and Elizabeth Dauling, and after their de-
cease to their children.

Item, I do give unto my son John Brett my land that is settled upon
me in New England, as appears by a Deed is expressed. As to the land
at Eythorne Court, in Kent, the house in Grace Church Parish in which
my son lives, known by the name of the Star &c, my will is that the same
settlement that was made to my son, upon the marriage of his first wife,
shall stand. To my brother Berman three pounds. Other legacies. My

son Brett to be executor. Son John Archer and friend r Blackborne

to be overseers. To my sister Archer, in remembrance of my love, forty
shillings. (Signed) John Bret.

Wit: Thomas Browne, Gabriel Glover and Edward Southby.

Lloyd, 1.

1612. "Aug. 9, William Hutchinson, of Alford, co. Lincoln, mercer, and
Anne, daughter of Francis Marbury, Minister, by licence." (St. Mary
Woolnoth Marriages, page 138.) '

15G5. Sep. 29, Susanna, wief of William Shorte, grocer, and daughter to
Mr. Rogers, late burned in Smithlield. (Ibid. Burials, page 188.)

[The above entries were copied by Mr Waters from the Registers of the
United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchnrch Haw, edited by
J. M. S. Brooke, M.A. and A. W. C. Hallen, M.A., published in 1886. The first
entry supplies the date and place of the marriage of William Hutchinson and
Anne, daughter of ltev. Francis Marbury. which Col. Chester when he wrote his
valuable account of the Hutchinson and Marbury families, printed in the
Register, vol. 20, pp. 355-67, did not iind.

If Col. Chester had seen the second entry he might have been spared much
labor in proving the family of the proto-martyr. This entry, taken with the
pedigree found in the British Museum, constitutes proof positive. — Editor.]

Washington.
A

The will of Alban Wakeline of Henley-upon-Thames, Oxfordshire, Esq.,
21 August 1G02, proved 10 February 1G02, mentions wife Amye, daughters

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Phillis Elizabeth, Mary and Priscilla, unmarried, Hugh Wakeline and his
brother George, and his sisters, children of uncle John Wakeline. He
appoints his wife executrix, and his" friends Robert Washington of Stuttes-
bury, Esq., Alban Butler of Ashton in the Wales, gent., in the co. of
Northampton, and Guy Foster of Hanslowe, in co. Buck., gent., overseers.

Among the witnesses was Lawrence Washington.

Admon. de bonis non was granted 30 April 1624 to Mary Bentley alias
Washington, a daughter, &c. Boleyn, 9 (P. C C.).

John (Bancroft) Bishop of Oxford in his will, 31 August 1639, proved 5
June 1641, enjoins that his body shall be buried in Cuddesdon chancel and
desires his chaplains Mr. Fulham or Mr. Washington to preach in Cuddesdon
church, and " to make such mention of me as may tend to God's glory."
To nephew Kinsman and my niece his wife, cousin-german Elizabeth Isard,
widow, aud my two brothers, Christopher and Silvester Bancroft.

Evelyn, 80 (P. C. C).

The following is extracted from a letter received from Mr. J. C. C. Smith : —
Mr. Cave Browne gives me this from Maidstone Register (about to be

printed).

Married January 15, 1609-10, Mr. Arthur Beeszicke, gent, and Mistris

Martha Washington, gentlewoman.

Laurentius Washington — Mense Januarii 1616. Decimo nono die
emanavit Comissio Margarete Washington relce Laurentii Washington
nuper de Wickamon in Com. Northampton def hentis, etc.

The will of Abel Makepeace of Chipping Warden, Northampton, yeoman,
was made 16 June 1601 and proved 14 October 1602. He mentions wife
Mary, daughters Dorothy and Bridgett, unmarried, three daughters already
married, viz. Lucy, Jane and Amye, son Lawrence, and good friends and
"cosen" Symon Haynes, gent, Basil Trymnell, gent., Thomas Hollowaye,
clerk, George Makepeace and Richard Blason; — also daughter Butler's two
daughters. Northamptonshire Wills.

In my notes on the Ancestry of Washington, an abstract of the will of
Symon Heynes of Turweston. Bucks., was given (Register,; vol. 43, p. 41 1),
because in it he mentioned his kinsman Lawrence Washington, meaning,
probably, the Register of Chancery. No explanation of that kinship was
given. The following pedigree, taken from ILtrleiao MS. looo (110 in
pencil), shows the connection:

SIMON HAYNES =
Dean of
Exeter and Windsor

. . ., who after married
Dr. May and lastly
Dr. Yale.

Simon, of Tnrweston=Amye, dau. and one
«w. larston, Bucks. of 3 coh. of

Henry Marshall
of Com. North*"
and of Elizabeth,
Aunt to Sir Law-
rence Washington.

Joseph lTaynes=Jane, d. and h. of

of Barking
Essex.

Margaret.

Joane.

Yale of
Wales.

Elizabeth.

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The will of Thomas Yale, Dr. of Laws (1577-1578), calls Jane wife of
Joseph Haynes " niece," and mentions wife Joane. That of Joane Yale,
his widow (1585-1587), mentions sons Simon and Joseph Heynes, or
Haynes, and William Maye. So we are enabled to fill the blank in the
above pedigree, so far as the baptismal name of the wife of the first Simon
Heynes is concerned. • Henry F. Waters.

I might supplement Mr. Conway Robinson's remarks {ante, page 77) as to
Lawrence Washington, Registrar of the High Court of Chancery, by stating
that in 15S3 he is styled of "Gray's Inn, co. Middlesex, gent.," during which
year he purchased the Manor of Whitacre inferior, co. Warwick, selling it six
years later to George Villiers, Esq., of Brokesby, co. Leic. Villiers's dau. Ann
afterwards married Washington's grand-nephew. Towards the close of Eliza-
beth's reign he purchased the Jordan's Hall of Maidstone, Kent, and alienated
it later to the Godwins.

Prom the Privy Council Register, 1G Jan. 1509, it appears that among the
lawyers of Chancery, assessed for suppression of the Irish rebellion, was
Lawrence Washington, 10 I. ster. ; and in a Certiticate about Privy Seais, co.
Middlesex, 1610, among those not having paid are Lawrence Washington of
Finchley, near London, and John Washington of Westdreate (Drayton-West).

In a list of monies raised 1626 on Privy Seals in co. Bucks, occurs name of
Lawrence Washington ar. of Westbury, 10 I.

On a small black marble tomb-stone, on the north side of the east window of
the chancel of All Saints, Maidstone, is the following inscription :

Mortalis Morte
Immortalis.
Here resteth the body of Lawrence
Washington Esq; of the Family of the
Washington s, antientlie of Washington
in the Countie Palatine of Durham:
Register of the Highe Court of Chancery
xxvii Yeares : He had two Wyvfs, Martha
Daughter of Clement Newce of Hartford-
shire Esq: and Mary Daughter of Sir Ravnold
Scott of this Countie Knight : By his First
He had 5 Sons and 2 Daughters ; Lawrence
and Mary, The Eldest only lyving. Lawrence
succeeded him in his Olhce, married Ann
Daughter of William Lewyn Judge of the
Prerogative Court. Mary married William
Horsepoole of this Parish Gentle" 3 . His other
Daughter Martha married to Arthur
Beswick Gentle' 11 . Son of William Beswick
of this County Esq.; He having lived A
Vertuous & Xtian Life of singular Intiecrity
in his place. Being of the age of lxxiii Yeares
Died the xxi of December An . D ui . 1 Gl 9. A
. ' Faithfull Believer in the Merritts &

Mercies of his Saviour. To whose Memorie
His Sonne hath erected this Monument.

Though after my Skinne
Worms destroy this Body,
Yet shall I see God in my Flesh.

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A* is stated his daughter Mary married William Horspoole gent, of Buckland,
pari-h of Maidstone, co. Kent; had children in 1(51!) : Synion, in. 15; John, ae.
12 ■ Lawrence, ®. 6 ; William, se. 3 ; Mary, Martha; Elizabeth and Catharine.
The other daughter Martha married .Arthur, son and heir of Win. Besirick of
Splimander, co. Kent and Sheriff of the County 1G1G; she died 1616, leaving
daughter Mary.

Lawrence Washington (Jim.), born about l. r )70, purchased the Manor of Gars-
den, co. Wilts (3 miles from Malmesbury) of the Moody family. He obtained
the grant in reversion of the Registrarship in the Co. of Chancery 1(5 Apr. 1604,
and succeeded his father in that office towards the close of 1619 ; subsequently
he was knighted. Berry, in his Genealogies of Kent, styles him "of Boling-
ford, co. Wilts." He married Ann, dau. of Win. Lewyn (or Lovin), LL.D. of
Ottringden (Otterden), co. Kent, made Master of Chancery about 1505 : Judge
of the" Prerog. Co. of Canterbury; Chancellor of Rochester, &c, who died in
Ap. 1508, and was interred in St. Leonard in Shoreditch, co. Middlesex. Sir
Lawrence died 1643, aged 64, & was buried in Garsden Church; when the church
was restored about I860 the mural monument which, surmounted by the family
arms, had stood in the chancel, to left of the altar, was removed to the Rectory
and was exhibited in August, 1862, at the Malmesbury meeting of the Wiltshire
Arch. Society. His widow Ann died Jan'y 13, 1645, and was interred iu the
same ground three days later.

The mansion at Garsden is handsome, old fashioned, built of stone, w T ith
walls five feet thick — its timbers chiefly of oak : the family arms carved over
the mantel-pieces ; and around the building a beautiful garden and orchard.

He had children, among them Lawrence and Martha. The following extract,
from Records of St. Dunstan's in the West,* Londou, evidently refers to others
of his issue :

Lawrence, son of Lawrence Washington jr., buried 29 Dec. lG17.f
Anne, dau. of Lawrence & Anne Washington, bapt. 29 Aug. 1G21.
Lawrence Washington, bapt. 30 Sept. 1G22.

Lawrence Washington, Esq., of Garsden, co. Wilts (son of Sir Lawrence
Washington, Knt.), was probably the child bapt. at St. Dunstan's in the West,
London. 30 Sept. 1622. He was app'd by H. of Com., 7 Nov. 1650, as Sheriff of
Co. Wilts, and Inigo Jones's Hist, of Stonehenge, 1655, mentions him as pro-
prietor of that place. He married Eleanor, dau. of Win. Guise, Esq., of El-
more, Sheriff of co. Glouc. in 1647. His will of 14 Jan. 1661-2 is on record.
The widow married Sir Win. l'argiter, Knt. of Gretworth, co. Northants, who
died 11 Aug. 1678, aged 48, leaving dau. Eleanor. She was buried beside her
first husbaud at Garsden, to which church, as Lady Pargitcr, she presented a
silver fiagon, two chalices and a salver. Mr. Washington left an only dau. and
heiress Elizabeth, who, iu 1671, became the first wife of Sir Robert Shirley,
Bart., afterwards Earl Ferrers, and died 2 Oct. 1603; the Earl died 25 Dec.
1717, aged 67, leaving issue.

Martha Washington, dau. of Sir Lawrence W., Knt., married in June, 1630,
as his 2d wife, Sir John Tyrell, Knt., of Springfield and Heron, co. Essex, born
14 Dec. 1507, ancestor of the Baronets Tyrell. She died 17 Dec. 1670, and was
buried at East Hornden; Sir John died 3 Apr. 1675. He had suffered severely
for his loyalty, as is quaintly shown in the Latin inscription on his grave-stone
in the south chapel of the church. — Isaac J. Greenwood, of New York city.

It happens rather strangely, that on April 26, 1800, there was sold at Libbie's
auction rooms, in Boston, a deed of Lawrence Washington, the elder, and Law-
rence W. the younger, of Maidstone, co. Kent. It was dated June 27, 1614, and
related to laud in Oxfordshire. The signatures were good, but the seals had
disappeared. — Editor.

* Richard Washington, who had died in Fetter Lane, London, 1651, was buried in this
church. He was a Fellow of Univ. Coll., Oxf., where he had taken his B.D. 1633, and was
afterwards Provost of Trinity Coll., Dublin.

t This was probably the child baptized at Mottingham July 24, 1614 (ante, page 78).—
Editor.

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The natural interest -which all Americans must feel in every detail of the
family and connections of our great first President has been powerfully stimu-
lated by the able paper of Mr. Henry F, "Waters, in the October number of the
Register, which has finally, let us hope, settled the vexed question of the Origin
of John and Lawrence Washington, the Emigrants of Virginia, and it now seems
in order to adduce every scrap of evidence bearing' on the descendants of John
"Washington of Whitfield, the founder of the lino, for preservation for the use
of the future writer of the Genealogy of the Family.

As is well known, Sir Lawrence Washington, Knt., the second Register of the
High Court of Chancery of that name, and the nephew of Robert Washington
of Sulgrave, the Ancestor of the Virginia line, acquired by purchase the estate
of Garsdon in Wiltshire from the Mooclys to whom it had been granted by King
Henry VIII. as a reward to one William Moody, his footman, for saving his
life on the qccasion of an accident which befel him in the hunting field.* The
family seem in fact, as will be shown, to have been in this neighborhood for
upward of a hundred years (1570-1G85) and perhaps still earlier than the former
date.

In the year 1887 the writer spent some weeks in Malmesbury and vicinity
engaged in genealogical researches, and twice visited the Church at Garsdon
where the Rev. Dr. Gray, the Rector, afforded him every facility for the investi-
gation of the monuments existing there. f The principal of these is the mural
monument of Sir Lawrence Washington, Knt., the first owner of Garsdon
Manor of the name, who died in 1G43, and which was cited by Mr. Waters in his
paper. This once splendid memorial of gilt and painted freestone, surmounted
by an oval shield of the Arms of Washington and Lewyn and with an inscrip-
tion cut on a black marble slab surrounded by a wreath, was taken down during
the destructive ''restoration" of the edilice in 1855 and has never been replaced.
The marble slab was used as a barrow plank by the masons and broken in two,
and the fragments of the whole lay neglected for years iu a corner of the
building until at length, in 1877, some enterprising disciple of Artemus Ward
literally carried off the whole bodily with the intention of exhibiting it in
America, and had actually reached Southampton with his plunder, when Dr.
Gray, who had then just been inducted to the living, discovered the desecration,
pursued him and compelled its return. The broken parts of the slab are now
united and protected by a strong oaken frame, pending the proper restoration
of the monument to its place on the chancel wall. \

The other four are floor tombs in the Chancel covered with large inscribed
slabs of black marble, without armorial bearings, but each has a similar pattern
of an urn engraved beneath the inscription. The first three of these are very
distinct, but the last is so heel worn that it was only with the greatest difficulty
that the writer was able to clearly indentify the fragments given. All are now
Well protected by strips of husk matting.

Hie Patrios cineres curauit films Urna

Condere qui tumulo nunc jacet Ille pius.

* Aubrey's Collections for Wilts, p. 25.— Garcsden.

t It is greatly to be regretted that the Parish Registers have perished previous to 1737,
and that the fragmentary Bishop's Transcripts at Salisbury yield absolutely no entries of
the name.

t The Arms in the shield, shown in the accompanying illustration, are as follows : — Quar-
terly, 1 & 4, argent, two bars and in chief* three mullets gules ( Washington) ; 2 & 3, ? a

cross patonce between four cinquefoils or ( — — ?) ; surcharged with a crescent or. Impaling
per pale gules and azure three bucks' heads couped or (Lewyn).
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The pious Son his Parents here inter'd

En mercede virum Pensatum muner[c« e?*]igna

Prospicit ille suis diua supersta sibi

Behold how duty well perform'd is paide

His Sire he him here his deerst hath laide.
[Sacrum 3/et]moria3 Annas Filiae | Lavrentij Washington Eqvitis J Et
vxoris Christopher! Gise | Hie Sepvltu3 Jvnij 4 to An: Do: j 1G42 iEtat
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Malmesbury Abbey Parish Registers.
Searched from 1590 to 1650.
1601. July — George Washington & Johann Hatt were maryed the 20 th daye.
1625. May 2 — George Washington buried.

1640. Buried the same daye (i. e. April 28) (blank) servant to Sir

Lawrence Washington of Garsden whose legg was taken off by
Mr. Phillips, Chirugeion.

Will of Henry e Washington of Malmesburie, dated 2 Julij 1570; no
Probate act or date of probate given; To be buried in parish Churchyard

* Obliterated.

f Covered by the corner of a pew.

X A splendid set of Communion Silver, which was presented to the Church by Lady
Pargiter in 1684, is still preserved and in perfect condition. It consists of four pieces,
engraved with the monogram I H S in a halo with emblems of the Crucitixion and with
the following inscription :

•'This was given by the Lady Pargiter to Garsdon Church, shee was formally Wife
to Lawrence Washington, Esq., who both lye buried here."

It is said that this plate owes its escape from the almost universal spoliation of the time
of the Commonwealth to the superstition of the peasants of the neighborhood, who believed
that a Demon, or other "unco"' being was confined in the box which contained it, and
their fears being, fortunately, greater than their curiosity, it remained untouched and
forgotten in a garret until the latter part of the last century, when it was restored to its
former use.

§ Comparison with the Malmesbury Registers, hereafter cited, will enable us to construct
this last mutilated inscription with certainty as follows. {Beneath this Pla)cc the B<>d(i>s)
of Lawrence (the son) & D(a)me Jone (the) wife of (Geo)r((/)c ( irhsA)iugton (are buried.)
The same authority shows us that its period (there is no tntce of a date on the slab) must
be placed between 16 '1 and 162-3, probably within a year or two of the former date, thus
carrying back the connection of the Washingtons with Garsdon to the first decade of the
17th century.

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of St. Pools of Malmesburie; To daughter Elyn Washington "my presse,
a fether bede & a flocke bede & payer of fine sheyts & payer canvas shetes,
a fine diaper metclothe, 2 coffers, 8 platters, 4 sawsers & 3 Candelstickes,
the beste Chaffeyn dyshe, a latin Bassen, a Cistren & a Querne, mi beste
Crocke, 2 Salt Sellers, ray beste Couerlet & Bolster" ; To cosin Alls Halle
2 Pottingers, a sawser & a candelsticke ; Wiffe Agnis to be Residuary
Legate